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Rebekah Higgitt

@beckyfh

Historian of science, Principal Curator of Science @NtlMuseumsScot and Hon. Fellow @UoE_STIS. Views own. Now mostly at https://t.co/p582LT6pe2

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Lives in Chemistry(@livesinchem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🏆Today the Paul Bunge Prize was awarded twice at the Conference of the GDCh Division of History of Chemistry: Professor Dr. Peter Heering Peter Heering, Europa-Universität Flensburg , received the award for his life’s work, especially with regard to the replication of

🏆Today the Paul Bunge Prize was awarded twice at the Conference of the GDCh Division of History of Chemistry: Professor Dr. Peter Heering @peter_heering, Europa-Universität Flensburg #EUF, received the award for his life’s work, especially with regard to the replication of
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Gratulation: Peter Heering, Universität Flensburg, und Rebekah Higgitt, National Museums Scotland (NMS), UK, werden für ihre Arbeiten zur Historie wissenschaftlicher Instrumente mit dem Paul-Bunge-Preis ausgezeichnet: gdch.app/article/von-hi…

Gratulation: Peter Heering, Universität Flensburg, und Rebekah Higgitt, National Museums Scotland (NMS), UK, werden für ihre Arbeiten zur Historie wissenschaftlicher Instrumente mit dem Paul-Bunge-Preis ausgezeichnet: gdch.app/article/von-hi…
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Tools of Knowledge(@ToK_AHRC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We have completed the first set of pages - thank you all! A new tranche is now in place and all three workflows are up and running. Why not spend the last days of Betwixtmas, and the first of 2024, exploring the journeys of Royal Navy chronometers?!
zooniverse.org/projects/tools…

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1/ Our Zooniverse transcription project is going along strongly, with the first tranche of pages from the Admiralty Chronometer Ledgers now nearly complete. zooniverse.org/projects/tools… Thread ⬇️⬇️

1/ Our Zooniverse transcription project is going along strongly, with the first tranche of pages from the Admiralty Chronometer Ledgers now nearly complete. zooniverse.org/projects/tools… Thread ⬇️⬇️ #histsci #histSTM #dighums #transcription #museums
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A Friday afternoon thread from me about our The Zooniverse project and considering chronometer itineraries individually and (potentially) at scale

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1/7 With the project end in sight (yikes!), we be sharing a few titbits and insights from our database and collections data.

This journey will connect object, to maker, to location, starting with this optical protractor from National Museums Scotland collections nms.ac.uk/explore-our-co…

1/7 With the project end in sight (yikes!), we be sharing a few titbits and insights from our database and collections data. This journey will connect object, to maker, to location, starting with this optical protractor from @NtlMuseumsScot collections nms.ac.uk/explore-our-co…
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For - the astonishing sight of the imprint of Carolingian coins in the leather pouch which housed part of the late 9th-century Roswinkel hoard. In the Drents Museum in Assen: 📷my own.

For #FindsFriday - the astonishing sight of the imprint of Carolingian coins in the leather pouch which housed part of the late 9th-century Roswinkel hoard. In the @DrentsMuseum in Assen: 📷my own.
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Tomorrow! This is open to all, in-person or online. It will be of interest to Edinburgh historians of science and more

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Clearly still jetlagged. As I know *very* well, T.O.V. tends to stand for Transit of Venus. And, yes, Madagascar was one of the 1882 expeditions...

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Anyone know what the Madagascar referred to in this ledger (tracking issuing of Royal Navy chronometers)? Is it T.O.V.? What does that stand for if so?

Anyone know what the Madagascar referred to in this ledger (tracking issuing of Royal Navy chronometers)? Is it T.O.V.? What does that stand for if so?
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Tools of Knowledge(@ToK_AHRC) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our Zooniverse project, Voyages in Time, is now officially live! It's great to see how fast volunteers are helping us transcribe data on Royal Navy chronometers and their journeys, short or long. The chat is being used to note particularly interesting ones zooniverse.org/projects/tools…

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As you probably won't have noticed, I am not posting much here now. There's plenty to enjoy over at 🔵 ⛅ - I have some more codes if any mutuals want to try it out

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Sorry to have missed this when travelling - happily it's available online here youtube.com/watch?v=zs5UsS…

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I think this is my first bit of blurbing - for a book I'm very happy to endorse. A must-read about 19thc science and government

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