Expeditions as Experiments

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Practising Observation and Documentation

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Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

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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.

Author Biography:

Marianne Klemun is Professor of Modern History and, from 2006 to 2012, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her publications include (as Guest Editor) ‘Moved Natural Objects: Spaces in Between’ in HOST - Journal of History of Science and Technology, Vol. 5 (2012). Ulrike Spring is Associate Professor of History at the Department of Social Sciences at Sogn og Fjordane University College, Norway, and Researcher in the project 'Making Sense of the Aurora' at the Department of History and Religious Studies at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.

Release date Australia

December 20th, 2016

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Contributors

Edited by Marianne Klemun
Edited by Ulrike Spring

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

5 Illustrations, color; 1 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 294 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color.

Pages

294

Series

Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology

Dimensions

148x210x19

ISBN-13

9781137581051

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25219005

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