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
Brock, William H.
Evans, Samantha
Ferretti, Federico
Gluch, Sibylle
Jackson, Roland
Maerker, Anna
Journals
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
British Journal for the History of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Ambix: Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
Environment and History
Publishers
Springer International Publishing
Cambridge University Press
Tredition Science
Concepts
Scientific communities; interprofessional relations
Correspondence and corresponding
Knowledge circulation
Astronomical observatories
Science and gender
Women in science
People
Darwin, Charles Robert
Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich
Liebig, Justus von
Lowell, Percival
Reclus, Jean Jacques Élisée
Sennert, Daniel
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Enlightenment
Modern
Places
Great Britain
Chile
Europe
Finland
Germany
Italy
Institutions
Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Universität Wittenberg
Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de Chile
University of Copenhagen
University of Padua
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