An edition of The heavens on earth (2010)

The heavens on earth

observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture

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Duke University Press
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English
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384

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Nineteenth century, Astronomy, History, Astronomy, history

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19th century
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Table of Contents

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham [NC]
Series
Science and cultural theory, Science and cultural theory

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520.9/034
Library of Congress
QB32 .H43 2010, QB32.H43 2010

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xii, 384 p. :
Number of pages
384

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OL24408636M
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ISBN 13
9780822346289, 9780822346401
LCCN
2009041448
OCLC/WorldCat
454381592

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