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Expeditions as Experiments - Practising Observation and Documentation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Expeditions as Experiments - Practising Observation and Documentation (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: 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.
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