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The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture (Science and Cultural Theory) by David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, H. Otto Sibum, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, David Aubin, Heinz Otto Sibum is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century observatory; this collection surveys them as a coherent whole. Broadening the focus beyond the solitary astronomer at his telescope, it illuminates the observatory’s importance to technological, military, political, and colonial undertakings, as well as in advancing and popularizing the mathematical, physical, and cosmological sciences. The contributors examine “observatory techniques” developed and used not only in connection with observatories but also by instrument makers in their workshops, navy officers on ships, civil engineers in the field, and many others. These techniques included the calibration and coordination of precision instruments for making observations and taking measurements; methods of data acquisition and tabulation; and the production of maps, drawings, and photographs, as well as nu

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Author

David Aubin, Charlotte Bigg, H. Otto Sibum, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub, David Aubin, Heinz Otto Sibum

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822392507

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Astronomy

Updated

2026-03-24