The Heavens on Earth: Observatories and Astronomy in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture

Book Overview

The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of "observatory sciences" that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century observatory; this collection surveys them as a coherent whole...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822346400
• ISBN13: 9780822346401
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"