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Expeditions as experiments = practising observation and documentation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Expeditions as experiments/ edited by Marianne Klemun, Ulrike Spring.
Reminder of title:	practising observation and documentation /
other author:	Klemun, Marianne.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xi, 294 p. :ill., digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Scientific expeditions - History. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58106-8
ISBN:	9781137581068

Expeditions as experiments = practising observation and documentation /
Expeditions as experimentspractising observation and documentation /[electronic resource] :edited by Marianne Klemun, Ulrike Spring. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xi, 294 p. :ill., digital ;22 cm. - Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology. - Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology..

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.

ISBN: 9781137581068

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-58106-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1114705
Scientific expeditions
--History.

LC Class. No.: Q115 / .E935 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 507.24

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