Instruments, travel, and science [electronic resource] : itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / edited by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum.
Series: Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 16.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: x, 303 p. : ill., maps, portsISBN:- 9780203219010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction / Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe and H. Otto Sibum -- 2. Golden means : assay instruments and the geography of precision in the Guinea trade / Simon Schaffer -- 3. The project for a map of Languedoc in eighteenth-century France at the contested intersection between astronomy and geography : the problem of co-ordination between philosophers, instruments and observations as a keystone of modernity / Christian Licoppe -- 4. The travels and trials of Mr Harrison's timekeeper / Jim Bennett -- 5. Landscape with numbers : natural history, travel and instruments in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Marie-Noëlle Bourguet -- 6. Appropriating invention : the reception of the voltaic battery in Europe / Giuliano Pancaldi -- 7. When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century / Kapil Raj -- 8. The manufacture of species : Kew Gardens, the Empire, and the standardisation of taxonomic practices in late nineteenth-century botany / Christophe Bonneuil -- 9. Exploring the margins of precision / H. Otto Sibum -- 10. Travelling light / Richard Staley -- 11. Travelling knowledge : narratives, assemblage and encounters / David Turnbull.
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