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The flux and reflux of science: The study of the tides and the organization of early Victorian science (Great Britain, William Whewell).

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Title/Author:	The flux and reflux of science: The study of the tides and the organization of early Victorian science (Great Britain, William Whewell)./
Author:	Reidy, Michael Sean.
Description:	427 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 0333.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-01A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9957675
ISBN:	0599609370

The flux and reflux of science: The study of the tides and the organization of early Victorian science (Great Britain, William Whewell).
Reidy, Michael Sean.

The flux and reflux of science: The study of the tides and the organization of early Victorian science (Great Britain, William Whewell). - 427 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-01, Section: A, page: 0333.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2000.

For a fortnight in June, 1835, nine countries observed simultaneously the oceanic tides bordering their countries and their possessions. Over 650 tidal stations participated. This multi-national venture, which William Whewell affirmed to include the most "multiplied and extensive observations yet encountered in science," was prototypical of what Susan Faye Cannon has termed "Humboldtian science." This dissertation demonstrates how the beginnings of the politics of imperialism, the economics of a worldwide export trade, and the extensive diffusion of science to the middle and working classes laid the foundation for the increasing expansiveness Humboldtian research and the fruitful connection between science and government.

ISBN: 0599609370Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

The flux and reflux of science: The study of the tides and the organization of early Victorian science (Great Britain, William Whewell).
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520 $a For a fortnight in June, 1835, nine countries observed simultaneously the oceanic tides bordering their countries and their possessions. Over 650 tidal stations participated. This multi-national venture, which William Whewell affirmed to include the most "multiplied and extensive observations yet encountered in science," was prototypical of what Susan Faye Cannon has termed "Humboldtian science." This dissertation demonstrates how the beginnings of the politics of imperialism, the economics of a worldwide export trade, and the extensive diffusion of science to the middle and working classes laid the foundation for the increasing expansiveness Humboldtian research and the fruitful connection between science and government.
520 $a The social matrix and internal mechanisms of this tidal research demonstrates that Humboldtian initiatives relied on a broad base of support and activity. This included significant contributions from Missionary Societies, the British Association, and especially the British Admiralty, from the Preventive Coast Guard to the Duke of Wellington, then Foreign Secretary. I also stress the essential contribution of the working-classes, a group previous historiography often described as mere data collectors. I uncover their roles in not only gathering data, but in initiating research topics, building self-registering instruments, reducing observational data, and advancing mathematical methods of analysis.
520 $a Whewell's twenty-year research project helped him formulate what it was to do science and placed him at the forefront of the emerging profession of science in the early Victorian era. His approach to tidology was culled from a study of its history and philosophy and followed two major lines of research. The first entailed finding the phenomenological laws of the tides through long-term observations. His second approach entailed short-term but simultaneous observations along the entire coast of Great Britain, and eventually Europe and America. Through a combination of these two approaches, Whewell both advanced the study of the tides and used his experiences as a researcher extensively in his History and Philosophy to comment on issues of scientific methodology.
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