Nantilus
The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture
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| Autres auteurs : | , , |
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture / edited by David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum |
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Durham [N.C.], London :
Duke University Press
, 2010 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XII-384 p.) |
| Collection : | Science and cultural theory |
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- 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