itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century /
نام نخستين پديدآور
edited by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
New York :
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Routledge,
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2003.
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) :
ساير جزييات
illustrations
فروست
عنوان فروست
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ;
مشخصه جلد
16
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Originally published 2002 by Routledge.
یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
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-Noëlle 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.