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Lieferstatus:	Auf Bestellung (Lieferzeit unbekannt)
Veröffentlichung:	Dezember 2016
Genre:	Naturwissensch., Medizin, Technik
	B / History / History of engineering & technology / History of Science / History of Technology / Technology—History
ISBN:	9781137581051
EAN-Code:	9781137581051
Verlag:	Springer Nature EN
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Serie:	Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Dimensionen:	H 210 mm / B 148 mm / D 25 mm
Gewicht:	5005 gr
Seiten:	294
Illustration:	XI, 294 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color., schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, farbige Illustrationen
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Inhalt:

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.