An edition of Instruments, travel and science
(2003)
Instruments, travel and science
itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
by Marie-Noe lle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and Heinz Otto Sibum
Share
×Close
This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
Instruments, travel and science: itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
2003, Routledge
electronic resource :
in English
0203219015 9780203219010
|
aaaa
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Golden means : assay instruments and the geography of precision in the Guinea trade / Simon Schaffer
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
The travels and trials of Mr Harrison's timekeeper / Jim Bennett
Landscape with numbers : natural history, travel and instruments in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Marie-Noe lle Bourguet
Appropriating invention : the reception of the voltaic battery in Europe / Giuliano Pancaldi
When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century / Kapil Raj
The manufacture of species : Kew Gardens, the Empire, and the standardisation of taxonomic practices in late nineteenth-century botany / Christophe Bonneuil
Exploring the margins of precision / H. Otto Sibum
Travelling light / Richard Staley
Travelling knowledge : narratives, assemblage and encounters / David Turnbull.
Edition Notes
Originally published 2002 by Routledge.
"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?
| September 17, 2024 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| December 14, 2022 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| July 28, 2014 | Created by ImportBot | import new book |