Instruments Travel and Science Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century 1st Edition by Marie Noelle Bourguet ISBN 9780415272957 0415272955
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ISBN 10:0415272955
ISBN 13: 9780415272957
Author: Marie-Noelle Bourguet
This volume investigates the evolution of “instrumental culture”—how science came to rely on precise, mobile instruments to produce measurements, data, and representations
. Through case studies across four centuries, it traces:
The global circulation of scientific instruments and calibration methods
The emergence of standards of precision and accuracy
The tension between localized practices and the “universalization” of scientific techniques
Table of contents:
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
JULIAN 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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