An empire of magnetism: global science and the British magnetic enterprise in the age of imperialism
During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engender...
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Zusammenfassung: | During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The British Magnetic Survey was celebrated at the time as the most extensive state-orchestrated scientific enterprise ever conducted. Yet although it was a fundamentally global endeavour, both in terms of its scale and its impact, the experimental instruments and techniques required were to be found amid Britain's booming local industry, where the harnessing of coal and iron, and use of steam power, shaped a scientific culture prominently concerned with the relationship between heat, pressure,and motion. In particular, it was philosophical apparatus fashioned within the mines of Cornwall that the government was able to conscript within this world-wide magnetic investigation. These locally produced experimental techniques and technologies proved capable of transformation into a system forobtaining magnetic measurements from over great expanses of time and space.As An Empire of Magnetism demonstrates, this not only sustained an immense world-wide scientific investigation, but became inseparable from the proliferation of empire, sustaining colonial expansion and unprecedented multi-cultural exchanges as British naval crews and natural philosophers surveyed previously unknown regions in the search for magnetic data. In so doing, Edward Gillin argues that the British Magnetic Survey had broader implications over the formation of the 'modernstate', the expansion of nineteenth-century empire, and the development of global science |
Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite [269]-284. - Index |
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CONTENTS
LIST
OF
FIGURES
XIII
LIST
OF
ABBREVIATIONS
XVII
PREFACE
XIX
INTRODUCTION: EMPIRES
OF
MAGNETISM 1
1.
STEAM-ENGINE ECONOMY
AND
THE
HEAT
OF
THE
MINE IN EARLY
NINETEENTH-CENTURY CORNWALL 26
2.
THE EARTH'S LABORATORY: UNDERGROUND EXPERIMENTS, PHILOSOPHICAL
MINERS,
AND
KNOWLEDGE FROM
THE
MINE 56
3.
SURVEY
AND
SCIENCE: POLAR EXPEDITIONS, TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM,
AND
THE
INSTRUMENTS
OF
EMPIRE, 1815-1839 95
4.
THE ANTARCTIC FOXES: DIPPING NEEDLES
ON
JAMES CLARK ROSS'S SOUTH
POLE
EXPEDITION,
1838-1843
133
5. EXPEDITION
AND
EXPERIMENT: THE BRITISH MAGNETIC SCHEME,
1841-1843
167
6. DISCOVERY,
DISASTER,
AND
THE
DIPPING NEEDLE: BRITAIN'S GLOBAL
MAGNETIC
SYSTEM,
1843-1850
189
7. THE TWILIGHT
OF
CORNISH
SCIENCE
AND
THE
SYSTEMATIZATION
OF
OCEANIC NAVIGATION, 1850-1907
227
EPILOGUE: GLOBAL SCIENCE IN
AN
AGE
OF
EMPIRE 257
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
269
INDEX
285
IBLLOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
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