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

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

Science and Cultural Theory

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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 i...

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