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John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire Book

John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire
John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire, In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England i, John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire has a rating of 3 stars
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John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire, In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England i, John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire
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  • John Herschel's Cape Voyage: Private Science, Public Imagination and the Ambitions of Empire
  • Written by author Steven Ruskin
  • Published by Ashgate Publishing, Limited, March 2004
  • In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England i
  • After John Herschel's 1833-1838 trip to southern Africa to astronomically observe the southern skies and terrestrially explore the areas around Cape Town, he became one of Britain's most highly esteemed scientific figures. This work argues that Herschel's
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1Recasting Herschel's Cape Voyage: Filial Duty vs. Humboldtian Traveling3
2The Politics of Herschel's Cape Voyage37
3Appropriating Astronomy: Herschel's Cape Observations, Real and Imagined75
4The Cape Results: Preparation and Publication105
5The Cape Results: Distribution and Reception155
6Herschel, Icon191
Herschel, Poetry, and Science205
Bibliography213
Index227


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