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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.

Travels of Learning

Author : Ana Simões
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735840
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Travels of Learning written by Ana Simões and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological traveling and takes the viewpoint of the European peripheries, including case studies of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. It contributes to the clarification of mechanisms of appropriation of scientific ideas, instruments, practices and of technological expertise. It is of interest to scholars and students of history and philosophy of science and technology, cultural and social history, science, technology and society studies.

Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499679
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Historical Scientific Instruments in Contemporary Education written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When science’s “black boxes” are pried open, its workings become accessible. Like time-travellers into history but grounded in today’s cultures, learners interact directly with authentic instruments and replicas. Chapters describe educational experiences sparked through collaborations interrelating museum, school and university.

Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum 1876

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108042414
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum 1876 written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-29 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive record, published in 1877, of an influential Victorian exhibition celebrating science and technology in the Western world.

Travels Into Print

Author : Innes M. Keighren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226429539
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 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: The Age of Exploration and Discovery may well have started in the 15th century, but for the British, the 19th century saw the rise of the British Empire and an explosion in world travel. The travel narratives written during this century were profuse, and by some estimates more travel narratives were written during the first half of the 19th century than in all preceding centuries. These accounts tell of wondrous zoological and botanical finds, of topography never before imagined, and of exotic peoples as well. At the time, there was one publisher, John Murray, known for its utter domination of the travel narrative field. The caliber and profile of their list was known throughout the UK and Europe, and into the US as well. The authors of the house included Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Washington Irving, and Sir Walter Scott. And in its list of travel writing and exploration, the house boasted the authors Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell. Murray s name became as synonymous with travel writing and exploration as it was with literary giants. Travels into Print is a tour through the archives and files of the House of Murray, and marvelous expedition in the geography of travel and exploration writing, knowledge, and reception in the 19th century. Rather than focusing on narratives of a particular region, or scientific area of interest, or particular period, the work uses a source that cuts across all of these areas, the publisher. Steeped in book files, and correspondence about edits, and revisions, sent between Murray and his staff and explorers, the book addresses the ways in which the texts were written, the role of truth in the accounts, correspondence as a form of production, and the writings as travel documents. This is a wonderful history of the book, told from the perspective of a legendary book and author maker. "

DHEW Publication No. (OE).

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book DHEW Publication No. (OE). written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Geography, Technology and Instruments of Exploration

Author : Fraser MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317128826
Total Pages : 314 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 314 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.

The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 1

Author : Katharine Anderson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040241042
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836 Vol 1 written by Katharine Anderson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship that carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos, triggering his later work on the theory of natural selection. This book presents the accounts of the two Beagle voyages, written by the ships' captains Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King.

Staging Science

Author : Martin Willis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113749994X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Staging Science written by Martin Willis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers scientific performances across two centuries, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Performances include demonstrations of technologies, experiments that look like theatre, theatre that looks like science, tourist representations and natural history film-making. Its key aim is to open debate on how scientific activity, both historical and contemporary, might be understood in the context of performance studies and the imaginative acts required to stage engaging performances. Scientific performances have become increasingly of interest to historians of science, literature and science scholars, and in the field of science studies. As yet, however, no work has sought to examine a range of scientific performances with the aim of interrogating and illuminating the kinds of critical and theoretical practices that might be employed to engage with them. With scientific performance likely to become ever more central to scholarly study in the next few years this volume offer a timely, and early, intervention in the existing debates, and aims, too, to be a touchstone for future work.

Early Scientific Instruments

Author : Anthony John Turner
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Scientific Instruments written by Anthony John Turner and published by Philip Wilson Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tracks on the Ocean

Author : Sara Caputo
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782838872
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Tracks on the Ocean written by Sara Caputo and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ingenious. Caputo picks out a fascinating path and leads readers along it with the confidence of a practised pilot' Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of 1492 'Accessible and entertaining, as well as deeply erudite and constantly mind-expanding' Philip Ball, author of How Life Works From their first appearance on Renaissance maps, linear tracks representing maritime voyages have shaped the way we see the world. But why do we depict journeys as lines, and what is their deeper meaning? Ferdinand Magellan's route to the Pacific embodied the promise of adventure and colonisation, while the scientific charts of the Royal Navy inspired others to plan conquests, navigate treacherous waters and establish settlements across the oceans. In Tracks on the Ocean, prize-winning historian Sara Caputo charts a hidden history of the modern world through the tracks left on maps and the sea. Taking us from ancient Greek itineraries to twenty-first-century digital mapping, via the voyages of Drake and Cook, the decks of Napoleonic warships and the boiler rooms of ocean liners, Caputo reveals how marks on maps have changed the course of modernity.

Travel Writing

Author : Carl Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136720804
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing written by Carl Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise and practical, Travel Writing is the ideal introduction for those new to the subject, as well as a crucial overview of the terminology, history and debates within the field.

Federal Science Progress

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Federal Science Progress written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Federal Science Progress

Author : Technical Services Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Science Progress written by Technical Services Office and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Centuries of Geological Travel

Author : Patrick Wyse Jackson
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392342
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Four Centuries of Geological Travel written by Patrick Wyse Jackson and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science.

Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis

Author : G. Thomas Farmer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400757573
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis written by G. Thomas Farmer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-12 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the principles of climate change science with an emphasis on the empirical evidence for climate change and a warming world. Additional readings are given at the end of each chapter. A list of "Things to Know" opens each chapter. Chapters are arranged so that the student is first introduced to the scientific method(s), examples of the use of the scientific method from other sciences drawn from the history of science with an emphasis on climate science. Climate science is treated in each chapter based on the premise of global warming. Chapter treatments on the atmosphere. biosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and anthroposphere and their inter-relationships are given.

The Last Blank Spaces

Author : Dane Kennedy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674074971
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Last Blank Spaces written by Dane Kennedy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenge of opening Africa and Australia to British imperial influence fell to a coterie of proto-professional explorers who sought knowledge, adventure, and fame but often experienced confusion, fear, and failure. The Last Blank Spaces follows the arc of these explorations, from idea to practice, intention to outcome, myth to reality.