Expeditions as Experiments : Practising Observation and Documentation.

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Klemun, Marianne, Spring, Ulrike
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016.
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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505 0 |a Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Expeditions asßExperiments: AnßIntroduction; Introduction; Defining Scientific Expeditions; Expeditions asßExperiments; Division ofßWork andßQuestions ofßAuthority; Scientific Practices: Observation andßDocumentation; Notes; Chapter 2: An Idea Ahead ofßIts Time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Mobile Botanical Laboratory; Introduction; The Chemical-Experimental Moment; Instruments andßExpeditions; The Mobile Botanical Laboratory; Organization; Expeditions Testing theßReports ofßOthers; Conclusion; Notes. 
505 8 |a Chapter 3: Experiments andßEvolving Frameworks ofßScientific Exploration: Jean-André Peyssonnel's Work onßCoralIntroduction; Sources ofßaßLifelong but Forgotten Scientific Journey onßThree Continents; Practical Knowledge Versus Erudition; Observations at Sea andßExperiments inßtheßLaboratory; A Pioneering Expedition toßNorth Africa; Power andßAuthority; Rehabilitation; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Japanese Ichthyological Objects andßKnowledge Gained inßContact Zones byßtheßKrusenstern Expedition; Introduction; Historical Relations Between Japan andßRussia. 
505 8 |a Scientific Mission ofßtheßKrusenstern ExpeditionContact Zones Between Japanese andßEuropeans; Fish Drawings andßDifferent Perceptions ofßFish; Natural Objects asßKey forßProducing Knowledge: TheßLangsdorff Collection; Making Use ofßJapanese Local Knowledge by Western Natural Historians; Producing Scientific Knowledge Based onßtheßCollected Objects; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Naturalists at Work: Expeditions, Collections andßtheßCreation ofß "Epistemic Things"; Making Discoveries; Specimens andßEpistemic Things, Expeditions andßExperiments; Working forßtheßMuseum; Travelling; Collecting. 
505 8 |a PreservingDebating Nature; Adjusting Knowledge; Notes; Chapter 6: Mary Barber's Expedition Journal: AnßExperimental Space toßVoice Social Concerns; Reception ofßWomen onßExpeditions; Wanderings inßScience andßSociety; Advocating forßWomen's Rights; Constructing Social Order Through Plant Descriptions; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Materializing theßAurora Borealis: Carl Weyprecht andßScientific Documentation ofßtheßArctic; Observing theßAurora; Documenting theßAurora; Materializing theßAurora; The Porous Borders ofßScience; Notes. 
505 8 |a Chapter 8: Going Deeper Underground: Social Cooperation inßEarly Twentieth-Century Cave ExpeditionsSpeleology-A Travelling Field ofßScience; Subterranean Expeditions: Semantics andßPolitics; Subterranean Expeditions asßSocial Ventures; Expedition ofßtheßSpeleological Club ofßVienna into theßGassel-Tropfsteinhöhle Cave; Austrian Academy ofßScience Expedition into theßEisriesenwelt Cave; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: A Mutual Space? Stereo Photography onßViennese Anthropological Expeditions (1905-45); Introduction; Travel Instructions: Beyond theß"Distorting Lens." 
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