Article ID: CBB000079351

John Herschel, George Airy, and the roaming eye of the State (1998)

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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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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Robert William
Chapman, Allan
Ashworth, William J.
Belteki, Daniel
Winter, Alison
Wilson, David Ball
Journals
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
British Journal for the History of Science
Victorian Studies
Rivista di Filosofia
Publishers
University of Notre Dame
Books on Demand
Indiana University
Concepts
Science
Astronomy
Scientific families
Instrument makers
Ships and shipbuilding
Mathematical analysis
People
Herschel, John Frederick William
Babbage, Charles
Airy, George Biddell
Whewell, William
Peacock, George
Merz, Georg
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Places
British Isles
Institutions
Cambridge University
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Leeds Astronomical Society
Analytical Society
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