The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture

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The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture.

Duke University Press, Durham 2010, stor 8vo, orig. omslag, xii + 384 s., engelsk tekst, illustrert.

Innhold, bl.a.: David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, H. Otto Sibum, Introduction: Observatory Techniques in Nineteenth-Century Science and Society; Simon Werrett, The Astronomical Capital of the World: Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I; Massimo Mazzotti, The Jesuit on the Roof: Observatory Sciences, Metaphysics, and Nation Building; Guy Boistel, Training Seafarers in Astronomy: Methods, Naval Schools, and Naval Observatories in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France; Sven Widmalm, Astronomy as Military Science: The Case of Sweden, ca. 1800—1850.