Instruments, travel and science
Subtitle: itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century
By: edited by Marie-Noe lle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum
Series: Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine -- 16; Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine -- 16.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780203219010
Subjects: Electronic books; Science; History; Scientific apparatus and instruments; SCIENCE
Notes: Originally published 2002 by Routledge.

"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Golden means : assay instruments and the geography of precision in the Guinea trade / Simon Schaffer; title: 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; title: The travels and trials of Mr Harrison's timekeeper / Jim Bennett; title: Landscape with numbers : natural history, travel and instruments in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Marie-Noe lle Bourguet; title: Appropriating invention : the reception of the voltaic battery in Europe / Giuliano Pancaldi; title: When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century / Kapil Raj; title: The manufacture of species : Kew Gardens, the Empire, and the standardisation of taxonomic practices in late nineteenth-century botany / Christophe Bonneuil; title: Exploring the margins of precision / H. Otto Sibum; title: Travelling light / Richard Staley; title: Travelling knowledge : narratives, assemblage and encounters / David Turnbull.