Description “The subject of this essay is a form of classificatory-accounting that Britain used in the management of its domestic territory and increasingly in its imperial conquests during the early nineteenth century. A network of information was perceived as a potent tool for exercising the nation's power, and providing a unifying link between its domestic infrastructure and imperial interests. Within this context the kind of observational and reporting techniques Britain's leading men of science adopted for their scientific investigations, came to represent both an ideal and pedagogical model in the collection and reduction of the State's data.”
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Chapman, Allan;
(1988)
Science and the public good: George Biddell Airy (1801-92) and the concept of a scientific civil servant
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Article
Daniel Belteki;
(2020)
Trust in Glass: Negotiating the Purchase of the Object Glass for the Airy Transit Circle
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Article
Alborn, Timothy L.;
(1988)
The “End of natural philosophy” revisited: Varieties of scientific discovery
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Thesis
Bolt, Marvin P.;
(1998)
John Herschel's natural philosophy: On the knowing of nature and the nature of knowing in early-19th-century Britain
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Chapter
Schaffer, Simon;
(1997)
Metrology, metrication, and Victorian values
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Article
Painter, John R.;
(1977)
Sir John F. W. Herschel and scientific thought in early 19th-century Britain
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Casini, Paolo;
(1981)
Herschel, Whewell, Stuart Mill e l'“analogia della natura”
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Article
Smith, Robert W.;
(1989)
The Cambridge network in action: The discovery of Neptune
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Article
Winter, Alison;
(1994)
“Compasses all awry”: The iron ship and the ambiguity of cultural authority in Victorian Britain
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Article
Smith, Robert W.;
(1991)
A national observatory transformed: Greenwich in the 19th century
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Article
Ashworth, William J.;
(1996)
Memory, efficiency, and symbolic analysis: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, and the industrial mind
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Schaaf, Larry;
(1980)
Herschel, Talbot, and photography: Spring 1831 and Spring 1839
(/isis/citation/CBB000001605/)
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Turvey, Peter J.;
(1991)
Sir John Herschel and the abandonment of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine No. 1
(/isis/citation/CBB000040395/)
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Wilkes, M.V.;
(1990)
Herschel, Peacock, Babbage and the development of the Cambridge curriculum
(/isis/citation/CBB000056809/)
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Becher, Harvey W.;
(1995)
Radicals, Whigs and conservatives: The middle and lower classes in the analytical revolution at Cambridge in the age of aristocracy
(/isis/citation/CBB000068243/)
Chapter
Wilson, David B.;
(1977)
Concepts of physical nature: John Herschel to Karl Pearson
(/isis/citation/CBB000015667/)
Article
Chapman, Allan;
(1996)
Sir John Herschel and the Leeds Astronomical Society
(/isis/citation/CBB000074374/)
Book
Wolfgang Steinicke;
(2021)
William Herschel: Discoverer of the Deep Sky
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Ashworth, William J.;
(1994)
The calculating eye: Baily, Herschel, Babbage and the business of astronomy
(/isis/citation/CBB000040286/)
Thesis
Jain, Chaman Lal;
(1975)
Methodology and epistemology: An examination of Sir John Frederick William Herschel's philosophy of science with reference to his theory of knowledge
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