Article ID: CBB734878771

Atmospheric Archives: Gender and Climate Knowledge in Colonial Tasmania (2021)

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There is a rich cache of letters detailing the production of climate knowledge at Tasmania's Hobart Observatory in the early nineteenth century. By contrast, a mere handful of sentences survive in the written record to describe the production of climate knowledge outside the Hobart Observatory, in Tasmania's north-east. In this paper, I confront the question of what to do with these unbalanced archival remains. I draw on the work of social and cultural historians as well as historians of colonialism and science to advocate a three-pronged methodology for approaching the problem of the unbalanced atmospheric archives. The application of this methodology, I show, reveals the way gender relations shaped the way atmospheric knowledge was both produced and used by historical actors in colonial Tasmania.

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Authors & Contributors
Scott Johnston
Sanhueza-Cerda, Carlos
Beiermann, Lea
Sangiacomo, Andrea
Beers, Daan
Bernardi, Gabriella
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Correspondence and corresponding
Knowledge circulation
Astronomical observatories
Social networks
Women in science
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Early modern
Modern
Enlightenment
Places
Great Britain
Padua (Italy)
Lesotho
Turin (Italy)
Prague (Czechia)
United States
Institutions
Electronic Enlightenment Project
University of Southern Denmark
University of Padua
University of Copenhagen
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Chile
Universität Wittenberg
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