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Empire and the Sun

Victorian Solar Eclipse Expeditions

Autor: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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Astronomy was a popular and important part of Victorian science, and British atronomers carried tele...

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Autor

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

224

EAN

9780804739252

ISBN

0804739250

Enbook ID

04717145

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

467

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 16

Descriere completă

Astronomy was a popular and important part of Victorian science, and British atronomers carried telescopes and spectrosopes to remote areas of India, the Great Plains of North America,and islands in the Caribbean and Pacific to watch the sun eclipsed by the moon. Examining the rich interplay between science, culture, and British imperial society in the late 19th century, this book shows how the organization and conduct of scientific fieldwork was structured by contemporary politics and culture, and how rapid and profound changes in the organization of science, advances in photography, and new printing technology remade the character of scientific observation. After introducing the field of Victorian science tothe nonspecialist, the book examines the long periods of planning necessary for eclipse expeditions, and it recounts the day-to-day work of getting to field sites, setting up camp, andpraeparing for and observing eclipses. Operating behind the countless decisions made by scientists was a host of large-scale forces, including the professionalization and specialization of disciplines, the growth of service, and public funding for the sciences. Fieldwork also required close coordination with the many institutions and technological systems of British imperialism. The development of imaging technologies was crucial to observations of the solar corona. Eclipse observation taxed astronomers and their cameras to their limits, and it raised new questions about the trustworthiness of imaging technologies. In the late 19th century, scientists shifted from drawing to photographing natural phenomena, but the shift occurred gradually, unevenly, and against resistance. Victorian astronomers had to weigh carefully the merits of human and mechanical observation, and the difficulties of solar photography highlight the inseparability of images from technologies of observation andprinting.