| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations. |
|
text file |
|
PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Series |
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
|
|
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism. |
| Contents |
Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Expeditions as€Experiments: An€Introduction; Introduction; Defining Scientific Expeditions; Expeditions as€Experiments; Division of€Work and€Questions of€Authority; Scientific Practices: Observation and€Documentation; Notes; Chapter 2: An Idea Ahead of€Its Time: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Mobile Botanical Laboratory; Introduction; The Chemical-Experimental Moment; Instruments and€Expeditions; The Mobile Botanical Laboratory; Organization; Expeditions Testing the€Reports of€Others; Conclusion; Notes. |
|
Chapter 3: Experiments and€Evolving Frameworks of€Scientific Exploration: Jean-André Peyssonnel's Work on€CoralIntroduction; Sources of€a€Lifelong but Forgotten Scientific Journey on€Three Continents; Practical Knowledge Versus Erudition; Observations at Sea and€Experiments in€the€Laboratory; A Pioneering Expedition to€North Africa; Power and€Authority; Rehabilitation; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: Japanese Ichthyological Objects and€Knowledge Gained in€Contact Zones by€the€Krusenstern Expedition; Introduction; Historical Relations Between Japan and€Russia. |
|
Scientific Mission of€the€Krusenstern ExpeditionContact Zones Between Japanese and€Europeans; Fish Drawings and€Different Perceptions of€Fish; Natural Objects as€Key for€Producing Knowledge: The€Langsdorff Collection; Making Use of€Japanese Local Knowledge by Western Natural Historians; Producing Scientific Knowledge Based on€the€Collected Objects; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5: Naturalists at Work: Expeditions, Collections and€the€Creation of€ "Epistemic Things"; Making Discoveries; Specimens and€Epistemic Things, Expeditions and€Experiments; Working for€the€Museum; Travelling; Collecting. |
|
PreservingDebating Nature; Adjusting Knowledge; Notes; Chapter 6: Mary Barber's Expedition Journal: An€Experimental Space to€Voice Social Concerns; Reception of€Women on€Expeditions; Wanderings in€Science and€Society; Advocating for€Women's Rights; Constructing Social Order Through Plant Descriptions; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Materializing the€Aurora Borealis: Carl Weyprecht and€Scientific Documentation of€the€Arctic; Observing the€Aurora; Documenting the€Aurora; Materializing the€Aurora; The Porous Borders of€Science; Notes. |
|
Chapter 8: Going Deeper Underground: Social Cooperation in€Early Twentieth-Century Cave ExpeditionsSpeleology-A Travelling Field of€Science; Subterranean Expeditions: Semantics and€Politics; Subterranean Expeditions as€Social Ventures; Expedition of€the€Speleological Club of€Vienna into the€Gassel-Tropfsteinhöhle Cave; Austrian Academy of€Science Expedition into the€Eisriesenwelt Cave; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: A Mutual Space? Stereo Photography on€Viennese Anthropological Expeditions (1905-45); Introduction; Travel Instructions: Beyond the€"Distorting Lens." |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Scientific expeditions -- History.
|
|
Scientific expeditions. |
|
History. |
|
Science -- Experiments -- History.
|
|
Science -- Experiments. |
|
History of engineering & technology. |
|
History of science. |
|
SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
|
| Added Author |
Klemun, Marianne, 1955- editor.
|
|
Spring, Ulrike, editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Expeditions as experiments. [London] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016 1137581050 (DLC) 2016953620 (OCoLC)947145656 |
| ISBN |
9781137581068 (electronic book) |
|
1137581069 (electronic book) |
|
9781137581051 |
|
1137581050 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/978-1-137-58106-8 |
|
