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- catalog abstract ""Through comparative and contextual approaches, this volume confronts the tension between the local and the global, examining the process of the universalisation of science. Bringing together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, contributors discuss French, German, and British initiatives, as well as the knowledge and techniques of travellers in countries such as India, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12596199.
- catalog contributor b12596200.
- catalog contributor b12596201.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Through comparative and contextual approaches, this volume confronts the tension between the local and the global, examining the process of the universalisation of science. Bringing together case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, contributors discuss French, German, and British initiatives, as well as the knowledge and techniques of travellers in countries such as India, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 303 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415272955 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; 16".
- catalog isPartOf "Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine ; 16.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "509 21".
- catalog subject "Q125 .S43467 2002".
- catalog subject "Science History.".
- catalog subject "Scientific apparatus and instruments History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Instruments, travel and science : itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / edited by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".