Tools of Knowledge

Modelling the Creative Communities of the Scientific Instrument Trade, 1550-1914

Exhibition

Craftswomen: Uncovering Hidden Labour in the History of Science, Whipple Museum, Cambridge

Articles and chapters

Alex Butterworth and Sarah Middle, ‘Towards an ontology of pre-20th century scientific instrument types‘, Metadata and Semantic Research 16th Research Conference, MTSR 2022 (Springer, 2023)

Boris Jardine, ‘A pair of Elizabethan printed paper sundials, attributed to Charles Whitwell (fl. 1591–d. 1611)’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 156 (March 2023), pp. 12–15

Boris Jardine, ‘Robert Beckit (fl. 1597): Humfrey Cole’s apprentice and the Second stationer-instrument maker’, Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society 147 (December 2020), pp. 30–32 

Books

Joshua Nall, James Hyslop, and Boris Jardine (eds.), Materials for the History of Science: A Whipple Museum Festschrift to Celebrate the Directorship of Professor Liba Taub (Cambridge: Whipple Museum of the History of Science, 2022) – including contributions from Rebekah Higgitt, Boris Jardine and Josh Nall

Other Publications

Sarah Middle, Duncan Hay and Alex Butterworth, ‘Identifying community requirements for Linked Humanities Data infrastructures’, Digital Humanities 2023 Conference, University of Graz (July 2023)

Sarah Middle, Alex Butterworth and Rebekah Higgitt, ‘From There to Posterity: Modelling Diverse Itineraries of Scientific Instruments’, Digital Humanities 2023 Conference, University of Graz (July 2023)

Sarah Middle, Duncan Hay and Alex Butterworth, White Paper: Infrastructures for Managing and Publishing Large, Heterogeneous Linked Datasets (June 2023)