Expeditions as experiments : practising observation and documentation /: practising observation and documentation. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marianne Klemun, Ulrike Spring, editors.
• Editors: Klemun, Marianne, 1955-; Spring, Ulrike
• 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."
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 507.2/4; History; Scientific expeditions -- History; Science -- Experiments -- History; SCIENCE -- Study & Teaching; Science -- Experiments; Scientific expeditions; Naturwissenschaften; Wissenschaftskultur; Forschungsreise; Dokumentation; Technology & Engineering -- History; History of engineering & technology; Science -- History; History of science; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137581068; 1137581069
• Related ISBNs: 9781137581051; 1137581050
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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