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John Herschel, George Airy, and the Roaming Eye of the State

Published:1998-06 Issue:2 Volume:36 Page:151-178
ISSN:0073-2753
Container-title:History of Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Hist Sci

Author:

Ashworth William J.¹

Affiliation:

1. University of Liverpool

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science,History

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/007327539803600202

Reference43 articles.

1. Warren Hastings is quoted in Bernard Cohn S., Colonialism and its forms of knowledge: The British in India (Princeton, 1996), 45.

2. For the original notion of “centres of calculation” see Latour Bruno, Science in action: How to follow scientists and engineers through society (Cambridge, Mass., 1987), 215–57. For the idea of the British empire as an archive defined by the quest for universal knowledge, see Richards Thomas, The imperial archive: Knowledge and the fantasy of empire (London, 1993).

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