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Author(s): Fraser MacDonald, Charles W.J. Withers (eds.)
ISBN(s): 9781472434258, 1472434250
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.26 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1472434250

ISBN 13: 9781472434258

Author: Fraser MacDonald, Charles W.J. Withers

Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology – too often overlooked hitherto – offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Equipping Expeditionary Astronomers: Nevil Maskelyne and the Development of “Precision Exploration”

Chapter 2: Instrumenting Order: Longitude, Seamen and Astronomers, 1770–1805

Chapter 3: North by Northwest? Experimental Instruments and Instruments of Experiment

Chapter 4: Weather Instruments All at Sea: Meteorology and the Royal Navy in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 5: Objects of Exploration: Expanding the Horizons of Maritime History

Chapter 6: Instruments of Exploration in National Museums Scotland

Chapter 7: “Instruments in the Hands of Others”: The Life and Liveliness of Instruments of British Geographical Exploration, c.1860–c.1930

Chapter 8: Seismic Instruments, Geographical Perspectives

Chapter 9: Aerial Photography in Geography and Exploration

Chapter 10: Uncovering Camouflage: The Technology of Location and the Craft of Erasure

Chapter 11: Instruments of Science and War: Frank Malina and the Object of Rocketry

Chapter 12: UK Radar (Dis)Integration in the 1960s: Linesman/Mediator Radar Development and the Calculus of Nuclear Deterrence

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