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2023

Journal article

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Observatory audiences

Like the contributions to the other papers in this collection (‘Object itineraries’ and ‘Instrumental networks’), those in this final section explore instrumental networks and object itineraries in order to tell new histories of observatory sites and their associated networks. (For a discussion of the genesis and thinking behind the collection...

Higgitt, Rebekah ; Biro, Susana ; Raposo, Pedro
world fairs, artwork, Carte du Ciel, networks, time gun, time signals, Models, scientific lectures, observatory sites, telescopes, astrographic, Yerkes Observatory, observatories, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Audiences, time ball, object stories, astronomy, and timekeeping
2023

Journal article

Revealing observatory networks through object stories: Introduction

This paper introduces a group of three articles that bring together object stories relating to observatory history and networks. The three articles (‘Instrumental networks’, ‘Object itineraries’ and ‘Observatory audiences’) each bring together three object stories by different authors that contribute to the article theme. Here the genesis of the collection...

Higgitt, Rebekah
object stories, observatory sites, astronomy, networks, collections, object biography, scientific instruments, object itineraries, Time, observatory sciences, and observatories