By Seb Falk Review: Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude By David Hughes Review: Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century, by Omar W Nasim By Robert Bud Responding to stories: The 1876 Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus and the Science Museum By Florence Grant Reading, writing, drawing and making in the 18th-century instrument trade By Rebekah Higgitt Review: Seven Ages of Science, BBC Radio 4 By Jim Bennett Review: Perfect Mechanics: Instrument Makers at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century, by Richard Sorrenson By Ludmilla Jordanova On heroism By Jean-Baptiste Gouyon ‘Something simple and striking, if not amusing’ – the Freedom 7 special exhibition at the Science Museum, 1965
