The heavens on earth
Subtitle: observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture
By: edited by David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, and H. Otto Sibum
Series: Science and cultural theory; Science and cultural theory
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780822346289; 9780822346401
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The astronomical capital of the world : Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I / Simon Werrett; title: The Jesuit on the roof : observatory sciences, metaphysics, and nation building / Massimo Mazzotti; title: Eclipse politics in France and Thailand, 1868 / David Aubin; title: Keeping the books at Paramatta Observatory / Simon Schaffer; title: Training seafarers in astronomy : methods, naval schools, and naval observatories in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Guy Boistel; title: Astronomy as military science the case of Sweden, ca. 1800/1850 / Sven Widmalm; title: Geodesy and map making in France and Algeria : between army officers and observatory scientists / Martina Schiavon; title: Michelson and the observatory : physics and the astronomical community in late-nineteenth-century America / Richard Staley; title: Even the tools will be free : Humboldt's romantic technologies / John Tresch; title: "I thought this might be of interest; title: " : the observatory as public enterprise / Theresa Levitt; title: Staging the heavens : astrophysics and popular astronomy in the late nineteenth century / Charlotte Bigg; title: The Berlin Urania, Humboldtian cosmology, and the public / Ole Molvig.