Geography, technology and instruments of exploration
Equipping expeditionary astronomers: Nevil Maskelyne and the development of 'precision exploration' / Rebekah Higgitt -- Instrumenting order: longitude, seamen and astronomers, 1771-1805 / Eoin Phillips -- North by northwest? Experimental instruments and instruments of experiment / Richard...
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Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT
Ashgate
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in historical geography
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Equipping expeditionary astronomers: Nevil Maskelyne and the development of 'precision exploration' / Rebekah Higgitt -- Instrumenting order: longitude, seamen and astronomers, 1771-1805 / Eoin Phillips -- North by northwest? Experimental instruments and instruments of experiment / Richard Dunn -- Weather instruments all at sea: meteorology and the Royal Navy in the nineteenth century / Simon Naylor -- Objects of exploration: expanding the horizons of maritime history / Claire Warrior and John McAleer -- Instruments of exploration in National Museums Scotland / A.D. Morrison-Low -- 'Instruments in the hands of others': the life and liveliness of instruments of British geographical exploration, c.1860-c.1930 / Eugene Rae, Catherine Souch and Charles W.J. Withers -- Seismic instruments, geographical perspectives / Deborah Jean Warner -- Aerial photography in geography and exploration / Peter Collier -- Uncovering camouflage: the technology of location and the craft of erasure / Isla Forsyth -- Instruments of science and war: Frank Malina and the object of rocketry / Fraser MacDonald -- UK radar (dis)integration in the 1960s: Linesman/Mediator radar development and the calculus of nuclear deterrence / Graham Spinardi. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 269 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781472434258 978-1-4724-3425-8 1472434250 1-4724-3425-0 |