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Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2019) 'Greenwich near London': The Royal Observatory and its London networks in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. British Journal for the History of Science, . ISSN 0007-0874. (In press) (Full text available)
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Bennett, Jim and Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2019) Introduction – London 1600-1800: Communities of Natural Knowledge and Artificial Practice. British Journal for the History of Science, . ISSN 0007-0874. (In press) (Full text available)
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Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2019) ‘In the Society’s Strong Box’: A Visual and Material History of the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, c.1736-1760. Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science, . ISSN 0394-7394. (In press) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2018) Instruments and Relics: The History and Use of the Royal Society's Object Collections c. 1850-1950. Journal of the History of Collections, . ISSN 0954-6650. E-ISSN 1477-8564. (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)
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Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2017) Framing the transit: expeditionary culture and identities in Lieutenant E.J.W. Noble’s caricatures of the 1874 transit of Venus expedition to Honolulu. Annals of Science, 74 (3). pp. 214-239. ISSN 0003-3790. E-ISSN 1464-505X. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2017.1328074) (Full text available)
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Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2017) Challenging Tropes: Genius, Heroic Invention, and the Longitude Problem in the Museum. Isis, 108 (2). pp. 371-380. ISSN 0021-1753. E-ISSN 1545-6994. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/692691) (Full text available)
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Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2014) A British national Observatory: The Building of the New Physical Observatory at Greenwich, 1890-99. British Journal for the History of Science, 47 . pp. 1-27. ISSN 0007-0874. E-ISSN 1474-001X. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087413000678) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2014) "The famous zenith sector" at Greenwich. Endeavour, 38 . pp. 154-156. ISSN 0160-9327. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2014.09.007) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Dolan, Graham (2010) Greenwich, Time and the Line. Endeavour, 34 (1). pp. 35-39. ISSN 0160-9327. E-ISSN 1873-1929. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2009.11.004) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Withers, Charles and Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Finnegan, Diarmid (2008) Historical Geographies of Provincial Science: Themes in the Setting and Reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and Ireland, 1831– c.1939. British Journal for the History of Science, 41 (03). pp. 385-415. ISSN 1474-001X. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000848) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Wither, Charles W J (2008) Science and Sociability: Women as Audience at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831–1901. Isis, 99 (1). pp. 1-27. ISSN 1545-6994. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/587538) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2006) Geography’s other Histories? Geography and Science in the British Association for the Advancement of Knowledge, 1831-c. 1933. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 31 (4). pp. 433-451. ISSN 0020-2754. E-ISSN 1475-5661. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00231.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2006) Why I Do Not FRS my Tail: Augustus De Morgan and The Royal Society. Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 60 (3). pp. 253-259. ISSN 0035-9149. E-ISSN 1743-0178. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2006.0150) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2004) Astronomers against Newton? Francis Baily’s Account of the First Astronomer Royal. Endeavour, 28 . pp. 20-24. ISSN 0160-9327. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2004.01.012) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2004) “Newton Dépossédé!” The British Response to the Pascal Forgeries of 1867. British Journal for the History of Science, 36 (4). pp. 437-453. ISSN 0007-0874. E-ISSN 1474-001X. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087403005144) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Book section

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Dunn, Richard (2017) The Bureau and the Board: change and collaboration in the final decades of the British Board of Longitude. In: Schiavon, Martina and Rollet, Laurent, eds. Pour une histoire du Bureau des longitudes (1795-1932). Presses universitaires de Lorraine, Nancy. ISBN 978-2-8143-0303-4. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2015) Equipping Expeditionary Astronomers: Nevil Maskelyne and the Development of ‘Precision Exploration. In: MacDonald, Fraser and Withers, Charles W. J., eds. Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration. Ashgate, Basingstoke, pp. 15-36. ISBN 978-1-4724-3425-8. E-ISBN 978-1-4724-3427-2. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2014) Revisiting and Revising Maskelyne’s reputation. In: Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal. Hale Books. ISBN 978-0-7198-0912-5. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2012) The "Epitome of Intellectual Sagacity": Biographical Treatments of Newton as a Mathematician. In: Wardhaugh, Benjamin, ed. The History of the History of Mathematics: Case Studies for the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-0343-0708-6. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2010) The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its Publics; Past and Present. In: Pigatto, Luisa and Zanini, Valeria, eds. Astronomy and its Instruments Before and After Galileo. International Astronomical Association. ISBN 978-88-6129-584-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2007) Discriminating Days? Partiality and Impartiality in Nineteenth-Century Biographies of Newton. In: The Poetics of Biography in Science, Technology and Medicine. Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 155-172. ISBN 978-0-7546-5181-9. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Monograph

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Wilsdon, James (2013) The Benefits of Hindsight: How History can Contribute to Science Policy. Project report. Alliance for Useful Evidence & Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, London, UK (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Book

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Dunn, Richard (2014) Finding Longitude: How Ships, Clocks and Stars helped solve the Longitude Problem. Collins, Glasgow, 256 pp. ISBN 978-0-00-752586-7. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2011) Royal Observatory Greenwich Souvenir Guide. National Maritime Museum ISBN 978-1-906367-51-0. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2007) Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science. Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century, 2 . Routledge (Pickering and Chatto), London, 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-85196-906-7. E-ISBN 978-1-78144-112-1. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Show / exhibition

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Dunn, Richard (2014) Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude. National Maritime Museum, 11 July 2014 - 4 January 2015, London, UK. Museum exhibition. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Edited book

Higgitt, Rebekah F. and Dunn, Richard, eds. (2015) Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, c. 1730-1880. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series . Palgrave Macmillan, 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-52063-0. E-ISBN 978-1-137-52064-7. (doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520647) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F. (2014) Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal. Robert Hale, Ramsbury, Wiltshire, 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-7198-0912-5. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

Higgitt, Rebekah F., ed. (2005) Nineteenth-Century Biography of Isaac Newton: Public Debate and Private Controversy. Routledge (Pickering and Chatto), London, 928 pp. ISBN 978-1-85196-778-0. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided)

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