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" Instruments, travel and science : "
edited by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum.
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BL
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946946
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b701316
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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.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ;; 16
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1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) :: illustrations
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0203219015
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: 9780203219010
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0415272955
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| Notes
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Originally published 2002 by Routledge.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Science-- History.
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Scientific apparatus and instruments-- History.
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SCIENCE-- History.
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Science.
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Scientific apparatus and instruments.
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509
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Q125.S43467 2003eb
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Bourguet, Marie-Noëlle.
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Licoppe, Christian,1957-
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Sibum, Heinz Otto,1956-
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