MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02213cam a22003014a 4500
001 2009041448
003 DLC
005 20100819085120.0
008 091005s2010 ncua b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2009041448
020 $a9780822346289 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780822346401 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aNcD/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQB32$b.H43 2010
082 00 $a520.9/034$222
245 04 $aThe heavens on earth :$bobservatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture /$cedited by David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum.
260 $aDurham [NC] :$bDuke University Press,$c2010.
300 $axii, 384 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
490 1 $aScience and cultural theory
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aAstronomy$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aNineteenth century.
700 1 $aAubin, David,$d1967-
700 1 $aBigg, Charlotte.
700 1 $aSibum, Heinz Otto,$d1956-
830 0 $aScience and cultural theory.