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The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture
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The heavens on earth : observatories and astronomy in nineteenth-century science and culture

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The astronomical capital of the world : Pulkovo Observatory in the Russia of Tsar Nicholas I / Simon Werrett
The Jesuit on the roof : observatory sciences, metaphysics, and nation building / Massimo Mazzotti
Eclipse politics in France and Thailand, 1868 / David Aubin
Keeping the books at Paramatta Observatory / Simon Schaffer
Training seafarers in astronomy : methods, naval schools, and naval observatories in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France / Guy Boistel
Astronomy as military science the case of Sweden, ca. 1800/1850 / Sven Widmalm
Geodesy and map making in France and Algeria : between army officers and observatory scientists / Martina Schiavon
Michelson and the observatory : physics and the astronomical community in late-nineteenth-century America / Richard Staley
Even the tools will be free : Humboldt's romantic technologies / John Tresch
"I thought this might be of interest
" : the observatory as public enterprise / Theresa Levitt
Staging the heavens : astrophysics and popular astronomy in the late nineteenth century / Charlotte Bigg
The Berlin Urania, Humboldtian cosmology, and the public / Ole Molvig.

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