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Instruments, Travel and Science

Author : Marie Noëlle Bourguet
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134482892
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Instruments, Travel and Science written by Marie Noëlle Bourguet and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now accustomed to conceive of science as an instrumental activity, producing numbers, measurements and graphs by means of sophisticated devices. This book investigates the historical process that gave rise to this instrumental culture. The contributors trace the displacement of instruments across the globe, the spread of practices or precision and the circulation and appropriation of skills and knowledge. Through comparative and contextual approaches, the volume confronts the tension between the local and the global, examining the process of the universalization of science. Bringing together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, contributors discuss French, German and British initiatives, as well as the knowledge and techniques of travellers in countries such as India, Africa, South East Asia and the Americas. Students and researchers interested in the history of science in both Western and non-Western cultures will find this book a valuable and thought-provoking read.

Instruments in Art and Science

Author : Helmar Schramm
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110971917
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Instruments in Art and Science written by Helmar Schramm and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of original papers at the intersection of philosophy, the history of science, cultural and theatrical studies. Based on a series of case studies on the 17th century, it contributes to an understanding of the role played by instruments at the interface of science and art. The papers pursue the hypothesis that the development and construction of instruments make a substantive contribution to the openingof new fields of knowledge, the development of new cultural practices, but also to the delineation of particular genres, methods, and disciplines. This perspective leads the authors to reflect anew on whatactually defines an instrument and to develop a series of basic questions to determine what an instrument is - which actions does the instrument incorporate? – which actions does the instrument make possible? - when do the objects of examination themselves become instruments? – what skills are required to use an instrument, which skills does it produce? With its combination of new theoretical models and historical case studies, its detailed demonstration of the mutual influence of art and science with the instrument as the point of intersection, this volume enters new territory. It is of great value for all those interested in the history of our perception of instruments. Besides the editors, the authors of the papers are: Jörg Jochen Berns, Olaf Breidbach, Georges Didi-Huberman, Peter Galison, Sybille Krämer, Dieter Mersch, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, and Otto Sibum.

How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324933
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book How Scientific Instruments Have Changed Hands written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. It features case-studies from the United Kingdom, the Americas and Europe.

Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration

Author : Fraser MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317128834
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration written by Fraser MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.

Science on the Roof of the World

Author : Lachlan Fleetwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100927564X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Science on the Roof of the World written by Lachlan Fleetwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When, how, and why did the Himalaya become the highest mountains in the world? In 1800, Chimborazo in South America was believed to be the world's highest mountain, only succeeded by Mount Everest in 1856. Science on the Roof of the World tells the story of this shift, and the scientific, imaginative, and political remaking needed to fit the Himalaya into a new global scientific and environmental order. Lachlan Fleetwood traces untold stories of scientific measurement and collecting, indigenous labour and expertise, and frontier-making to provide the first comprehensive account of the East India Company's imperial entanglements with the Himalaya. To make the Himalaya knowable and globally comparable, he demonstrates that it was necessary to erase both dependence on indigenous networks and scientific uncertainties, offering an innovative way of understanding science's global history, and showing how geographical features like mountains can serve as scales for new histories of empire.

Underground Mathematics

Author : Thomas Morel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009267302
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Underground Mathematics written by Thomas Morel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the development of practical mathematics in early modern Europe through the practice of mining.

Science and Empire in the Atlantic World

Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135899096
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Science and Empire in the Atlantic World written by James Delbourgo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and Empire in the Atlantic World is the first book in the growing field of Atlantic Studies to examine the production of scientific knowledge in the Atlantic world from a comparative and international perspective. Rather than focusing on a specific scientific field or single national context, this collection captures the multiplicity of practices, people, languages, and agendas that characterized the traffic in knowledge around the Atlantic world, linking this knowledge to the social processes fundamental to colonialism, such as travel, trade, ethnography, and slavery.

Materials of the Mind

Author : James Poskett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820645
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Materials of the Mind written by James Poskett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.

Knowing Global Environments

Author : Jeremy Vetter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813550270
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Global Environments written by Jeremy Vetter and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing Global Environments brings together nine leading scholars whose work spans a variety of environmental and field sciences, including archaeology, agriculture, botany, climatology, ecology, evolutionary biology, oceanography, ornithology, and tidology. Collectively their essays explore the history of the field sciences, through the lens of place, practice, and the production of scientific knowledge, with a wide-ranging perspective extending outwards from the local to regional, national, imperial, and global scales. The book also shows what the history of the field sciences can contribute to environmental history-especially how knowledge in the field sciences has intersected with changing environments-and addresses key present-day problems related to sustainability, such as global climate, biodiversity, oceans, and more. Contributors to Knowing Global Environments reveal how the field sciences have interacted with practical economic activities, such as forestry, agriculture, and tourism, as well as how the public has been involved in the field sciences, as field assistants, students, and local collaborators.

Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire

Author : Sarah Irving
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315227
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire written by Sarah Irving and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents a history of the British Empire that takes account of the sense of empire as intellectual as well as geographic dominion: the historiography of the British Empire, with its preoccupation of empire as geographically unchallenged sovereignty, overlooks the idea of empire as intellectual dominion.

Spaces of Global Knowledge

Author : Diarmid A. Finnegan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317051726
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Spaces of Global Knowledge written by Diarmid A. Finnegan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ’Global’ knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places. This book focuses on the life-geographies, material practices and varied contributions to knowledge, be they medical or botanical, cartographic or cultural, of actors whose lives crisscrossed an increasingly connected world. Integrating detailed archival research with broader thematic and conceptual reflection, the individual case studies use local specificity to shed light on global structures and processes, revealing the latter to be lived and experienced phenomena rather than abstract historiographical categories. This volume makes an original and compelling contribution to a growing body of scholarship on the global history of knowledge. Given its wide geographic, disciplinary and thematic range this book will appeal to a broad readership including historical geographers and specialists in history of science and medicine, imperial history, museum studies, and book history.

Anthropology and Science

Author : Jeanette Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100032544X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology and Science written by Jeanette Edwards and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual and global 'places' created by new information technologies, Anthropology and Science presents examples of living and dynamic epistemologies and practices, and of how scientific ways of knowing operate in the world. Authors address the nature of both scientific and experiential knowledge, and look at competing and alternative ideas about what it means to be human. The essays analyze the politics and ethics of positioning 'science', 'culture' or 'society' as authoritative. They explore how certain modes of knowing are made authoritative and command allegiance (or not), and look at scientific and other rationalities - whether these challenge or are compatible with science.

Expeditions as Experiments

Author : Marianne Klemun
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137581069
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Expeditions as Experiments written by Marianne Klemun and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.

NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1980

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NASA Authorization for Fiscal Year 1980 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry

Author : Marco Beretta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004511210
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book The Arsenal of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry written by Marco Beretta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-08 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete and detailed catalogue of Lavoisier’s collection of instruments preserved at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The story of the collection is carefully reconstructed and its instruments (all illustrated) are described in detail.

Einstein's Generation

Author : Richard Staley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226770575
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Generation written by Richard Staley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Einstein's Generation' offers a new approach to the origins of modern physics by exploring both the material culture that stimulated relativity and the reaction of Einstein's colleagues to his pioneering work.

Travels into Print

Author : Innes M. Keighren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623357X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Travels into Print written by Innes M. Keighren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry—products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating new geographical truths. In an age of global wonder and of expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and the firm’s correspondence with its many authors—a list that included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott—Travels into Print considers how journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony and to secure their personal credibility. This fascinating study in historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical authorship—a journey bound together by the unifying force of a world-leading publisher.