Observatories, Instruments and Practices in Motion: An Astronomical Journey in the Nineteenth-Century (2014)
Raposo, Pedro M. P. (Author)
HOST: Journal of History of Science and Technology
Volume: 8
Pages: 69-104
This paper addresses the establishment and development of the Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon (AOL). It focuses on some aspects of a journey made by its first astronomer and director, Frederico Augusto Oom (1830--1890) who, between 1858 and 1863, visited several observatories and instrument workshops in Europe, and spent long periods studying and practising at the Observatory of Pulkovo in Russia. This case is used to illustrate how a specific site of knowledge can be approached as an open and dynamic embodiment, the constitution and development of which interconnects several actors and spaces through a wide array of practices and interactions. For that purpose, the AOL is contextualized in a broad space of circulation of observatory plans, management styles, instruments and practices that ultimately connected the networks and circuits of nineteenth-century European astronomy with the geography of the Portuguese overseas empire.
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