Format:
XII, 384 S.
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Ill., Kt.
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9780822346289
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9780822346401
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0822346281
,
0822346400
Series Statement:
Science and cultural theory
Content:
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
Note:
Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The astronomical capital of the world : Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I
,
The Jesuit on the roof : observatory sciences, metaphysics, and nation building
,
Eclipse politics in France and Thailand, 1868
,
Keeping the books at Paramatta Observatory
,
Training seafarers in astronomy : methods, naval schools, and naval observatories in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France
,
Astronomy as military science the case of Sweden, ca. 1800/1850
,
Geodesy and map making in France and Algeria : between army officers and observatory scientists
,
Michelson and the observatory : physics and the astronomical community in late-nineteenth-century America
,
Even the tools will be free : Humboldt's romantic technologies
,
"I thought this might be of interest--" : the observatory as public enterprise
,
Staging the heavens : astrophysics and popular astronomy in the late nineteenth century
,
The Berlin Urania, Humboldtian cosmology, and the public
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Sternwarte
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Bigg, Charlotte 1974-
Author information:
Sibum, Heinz Otto 1956-
