Tools of Knowledge

Tools of Knowledge

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

Principal Investigator (to 30 June 2023)

Rebekah Higgitt

Co-Investigator (to 30 June 2023) Principal Investigator (from 1 July 2023)

Alex Butterworth

Co-Investigator

Joshua Nall

Co-Investigator (to 30 June 2023) Project Partner for Whipple Museum (from 1 July)

Boris Jardine

Co-Investigator (to 30 June 2023)

Sarah Middle

Researcher

Duncan Hay

Research Fellow / Developer

Matt Beros

Research Assistant

Denice Penrose

Administrative Support

Project Associates

Felix Needham-Simpson

Data Development Assistant

Advisory Group

Gloria Clifton (Chair)

Former Head of the

Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Caroline Bassett

University of Cambridge

Tim Hitchcock

University of Sussex

Simon Schaffer

University of Cambridge

Ruth Ahnert

Queen Mary, University of London

Jane Desborough

Science Museum

Charles van den Heuvel

University of Amsterdam

Howard Hotson

University of Oxford

William Ashworth

University of Liverpool

Stephen Johnston

History of Science Museum

Alison Morrison-Low

National Museum of Scotland

Tools of Knowledge: Modelling the Creative Communities of the Scientific Instrument Trade, 1550-1914 is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/T013400/1). Our header images are from the Science Museum Group Collection © The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).