Expeditions as Experiments: Practising Observation and Documentation

Book Overview

This collection focuses on different expeditions and their role in the process of knowledge acquisition from the eighteenth century onwards. It investigates various forms of scientific practice conducted during, after and before expeditions, and it places this discussion into the scientific context of experiments. In treating expeditions as experiments in a heuristic sense, we also propose that the expedition is a variation on the laboratory in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349845345
• ISBN13: 9781349845347
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"