| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 正題名/作者: |
Instruments, travel and science/ edited by Marie-No鋀lle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum. |
| 其他題名: |
itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / |
| 其他作者: |
Bourguet, Marie-No鋀lle. |
| 出版者: |
London ;Routledge, : 2003., |
| 面頁冊數: |
xii, 303 p. :ill. |
| 附註: |
"This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003"--T.p. verso. |
| 叢書名: |
Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine ; |
| 內容註: |
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-No鋀lle 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. |
| 標題: |
Science - History. - |
| 電子資源: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=93044An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
0203219015 (electronic bk.) |