By Fraser MacDonald,Charles W.J. Withers,Fraser, Dr MacDonald,Charles W J, Professor Withers
Focusing on facets of the functioning of expertise, and via taking a look at tools and at instrumental functionality, this e-book addresses the epistemological questions bobbing up from studying the technological bases to geographical exploration and data claims. Questions of geography and exploration and expertise are addressed in old and modern context and in numerous geographical destinations and highbrow cultures. the gathering brings jointly students within the heritage of geographical exploration, historians of technology, historians of expertise and, importantly, specialists with curatorial obligations for, and museological services in, significant device collections. Ranging of their concentration from stories of astronomical perform to seismography, meteorological tools and rockets, from radar to the hand held barometer, the chapters of this ebook study the ways that tools and questions of know-how - too usually ignored hitherto - supply perception into the connections among geography and exploration.
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