Expeditions as Experiments
Practising Observation and Documentation
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1st ed. 2016
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Date of Publication 20 December 2016
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9781137581051
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 210x148 mm
- Weight 5005 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XI, 294 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color. Illustrations, black & white 0
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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.
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