Empire of Magnetism
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Empire of Magnetism
Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism
Gillin, Edward J.
Oxford University Press
12/2023
336
Dura
Inglês
9780198890959
15 a 20 dias
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Empires of Magnetism
1: Steam-engine Economy and the Heat of the Mine in Early Nineteenth-century Cornwall
2: The Earth's Laboratory: Underground Experiments, Philosophical Miners, and Knowledge from the Mine
3: Survey and Science: Polar Expeditions, Terrestrial Magnetism, and the Instruments of Empire, 1815-1839
4: The Antarctic Foxs: Dipping Needles on James Clark Ross's South Pole Expedition, 1838-1843
5: Expedition and Experiment: the British Magnetic Survey, 1841-1843
6: Discovery, Disaster, and the Dipping Needle: Britain's Global Magnetic System, 1843-1850
7: The Twilight of Cornish Science and the Systematization of Oceanic Navigation, 1850-1907
8: Epilogue: Global Science in an Age of Empire
Bibliography
Preface
Introduction: Empires of Magnetism
1: Steam-engine Economy and the Heat of the Mine in Early Nineteenth-century Cornwall
2: The Earth's Laboratory: Underground Experiments, Philosophical Miners, and Knowledge from the Mine
3: Survey and Science: Polar Expeditions, Terrestrial Magnetism, and the Instruments of Empire, 1815-1839
4: The Antarctic Foxs: Dipping Needles on James Clark Ross's South Pole Expedition, 1838-1843
5: Expedition and Experiment: the British Magnetic Survey, 1841-1843
6: Discovery, Disaster, and the Dipping Needle: Britain's Global Magnetic System, 1843-1850
7: The Twilight of Cornish Science and the Systematization of Oceanic Navigation, 1850-1907
8: Epilogue: Global Science in an Age of Empire
Bibliography
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Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Empires of Magnetism
1: Steam-engine Economy and the Heat of the Mine in Early Nineteenth-century Cornwall
2: The Earth's Laboratory: Underground Experiments, Philosophical Miners, and Knowledge from the Mine
3: Survey and Science: Polar Expeditions, Terrestrial Magnetism, and the Instruments of Empire, 1815-1839
4: The Antarctic Foxs: Dipping Needles on James Clark Ross's South Pole Expedition, 1838-1843
5: Expedition and Experiment: the British Magnetic Survey, 1841-1843
6: Discovery, Disaster, and the Dipping Needle: Britain's Global Magnetic System, 1843-1850
7: The Twilight of Cornish Science and the Systematization of Oceanic Navigation, 1850-1907
8: Epilogue: Global Science in an Age of Empire
Bibliography
Preface
Introduction: Empires of Magnetism
1: Steam-engine Economy and the Heat of the Mine in Early Nineteenth-century Cornwall
2: The Earth's Laboratory: Underground Experiments, Philosophical Miners, and Knowledge from the Mine
3: Survey and Science: Polar Expeditions, Terrestrial Magnetism, and the Instruments of Empire, 1815-1839
4: The Antarctic Foxs: Dipping Needles on James Clark Ross's South Pole Expedition, 1838-1843
5: Expedition and Experiment: the British Magnetic Survey, 1841-1843
6: Discovery, Disaster, and the Dipping Needle: Britain's Global Magnetic System, 1843-1850
7: The Twilight of Cornish Science and the Systematization of Oceanic Navigation, 1850-1907
8: Epilogue: Global Science in an Age of Empire
Bibliography
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