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The Heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture /
A cultural history of astronomy in the 19th century that focusses on the issues and perspectives on the role of the observatory in science, society, and culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham [NC] :
Duke University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Science and cultural theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: observatory techniques in nineteenth-century science and society / David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum
- The astronomical capital of the world : Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I / Simon Werrett
- The Jesuit on the roof : observatory sciences, metaphysics, and nation building / Massimo Mazzotti
- Eclipse politics in France and Thailand, 1868 / David Aubin
- Keeping the books at Paramatta Observatory / Simon Schaffer
- Training seafarers in astronomy : methods, naval schools, and naval observatories in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Guy Boistel
- Astronomy as military science the case of Sweden, ca. 1800/1850 / Sven Widmalm
- Geodesy and map making in France and Algeria : between army officers and observatory scientists / Martina Schiavon
- Michelson and the observatory : physics and the astronomical community in late-nineteenth-century America / Richard Staley
- Even the tools will be free : Humboldt's romantic technologies / John Tresch
- "I thought this might be of interest--" : the observatory as public enterprise / Theresa Levitt
- Staging the heavens : astrophysics and popular astronomy in the late nineteenth century / Charlotte Bigg
- The Berlin Urania, Humboldtian cosmology, and the public / Ole Molvig.