Article ID: CBB000640508

Experience, Pedagogy, and the Study of Terrestrial Magnetism (2005)

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In 1842, British astronomer Sir John Herschel wrote a letter to Carl Friedrich Gauss seeking his advice about how to make data collection more efficient on the Magnetic Crusade, a large-scale initiative to study the earth's magnetic field. Surprisingly, even though Gauss had managed a similar initiative, he refused to give Herschel the advice he wanted, claiming that he needed to see Herschel's results before he could reply. Taking this miscommunication as a point of departure, this article traces the cause of this miscommunication to differences in how each scientist viewed scientific training and the communicability of different kinds of scientific knowledge.

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Description On correspondence and miscommunication between John Herschel and Carl Friedrich Gauss on a large-scale scientific project.


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Authors & Contributors
Good, Gregory A.
Case, Stephen R.
Wiederkehr, K.-H.
Warner, Brian
Schröder, Wilfried
Ruskin, Steven. W.
Concepts
Geomagnetism
Astronomy
Mathematics
Earth sciences
Magnetism
Empiricism
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
21st century
17th century
Places
Germany
Göttingen (Germany)
United States
South Africa
Great Britain
Institutions
Universität Göttingen
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