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Trinity House, which was a guild of ships’ masters, pilots, naval administrators and overseas traders, was from the Restoration to the end of the 18th century based in a house in Water Lane in London's Tower Ward. It was a space in which maritime expertise was asserted, navigational knowledge tested, and innovation adjudicated. Here, and in the corporation's associated sites, navigational instruments had both practical and symbolic meanings.
This paper draws on surviving objects, images and institutional records to identify some of the ways in which instruments were used to represent the knowledge and practice of the Elder Brethren of Trinity House, and to suggest ways in which this changed over the course of the century, as their relationship with the use and production of mathematical knowledge.
- Speaker
- Rebekah Higgitt (National Museums Scotland)
- Venue
- via Teams