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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on the Bibliography
Introduction: Observatory Techniques in Nineteenth-Century Science and Society
Observatory Techniques
A Science of Precision
Managing Numbers: Statistics
Observing with “Science’s Eye”: Networks
Observatory Techniques on the World Stage
Representations: Instruments, Images, and Imagination
In Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 1: The Astronomical Capital of the World: Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I
The Empire: Attempts to Build an Imperial Astronomy
The Observatory: Dramatizing Astronomy
Notes
Chapter 2: The Jesuit on the Roof: Observatory Sciences, Metaphysics, and Nation-Building
The Machines of the Pope
The Unified Universe
The Making of Italian Astrophysics
Epilogue
Notes
Chapter 3: Eclipse Politics in France and Thailand, 1868
The Global Politics of Solar Eclipses
The Beaches of Wako
The Eclipse in Franco-Siamese Context
The Many Uses of Astronomy
The Reasons of the Eclipse
The Eclipse of Reason?
Notes
Chapter 4: Keeping the Books at Paramatta Observatory
Meridian Astronomy in the Penal Colony
The Paramatta Astronomers Brought to Book
Notes
Chapter 5: Training Seafarers in Astronomy: Methods, Naval Schools, and Naval Observatories in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France
Astronomy and Navigation: An Old Story
The Scientific Training of Seafarers
The Rise and Fall of Naval Observatories in France
Conclusion: Technical Transfers from the Observatory to the Navy?
Notes
Chapter 6: Astronomy as Military Science: The Case of Sweden, ca. 1800–1850
The French Connection
The New Military Science
The Military Cartographers
Notes
Chapter 7: Geodesy and Mapmaking in France and Algeria: Between Army Officers and Observatory Scientists
The Measurement of Meridian Arcs in France Before 1870
A New Kind of Geodesy: German Instrumental and Computing Methods
French Debates About German Methods: A Case for Geological Geodesy?
A New Impetus for French Geodesy: François Perrier and the War Depot
The Lessons from the War with Prussia
Fieldwork for the New French Meridian
The Geodetical Crossing of the Mediterranean
Notes
Chapter 8: Michelson and the Observatory: Physics and the Astronomical Community in Late Nineteenth-Century America
The Velocity of Light
An Ether Observatory?
Accuracy in the Extreme
Astronomical Measurements and Astrophysical Contributions
Notes
Chapter 9: Even the Tools will be Free: Humboldt’s Romantic Technologies
Humboldt’s Aesthetic Anxiety
Kant’s Objectivities
Schiller’s Aesthetic State and Its Citizens
A Cosmic Polity of Free Instruments
Reframing the Modern World Picture
Notes
Chapter 10: “I Thought this might be of Interest…”: The Observatory as Public Enterprise
Educating the Public
The Observing Public
Notes
Chapter 11: Staging the Heavens: Astrophysics and Popular Astronomy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Celestial Chemistry
Popular Observatories
Astrophysics as Popular Astronomy
Techniques of Representing Nature and the Scientist
Notes
Chapter 12: The Berlin Urania, Humboldtian Cosmology, and the Public
Creating the Berlin Urania
Built in Their Image: Werner Siemens, Alexander von Humboldt, Hermann von Helmholtz
Notes
Bibliography
About the Contributors
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