Richard Dunn

Royal Observatory: Longitude curator

Dr. Richard Dunn is Head of Science and Technology at Royal Museums Greenwich. He is co-curator of Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude, a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum (www.rmg.co.uk/longitude). He is also working on the history of the Board of Longitude in collaboration with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. His publications include The Telescope: A Short History (2009) and Finding Longitude (2014, with Rebekah Higgitt).

Year: 
2014