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Scientific Expeditions to the Arab World (1761-1881)
Ivo Klaver discusses four major expeditions which assembled scientific data in various parts of the Arab world between 1761 and 1881. Sponsored by governments and official institutions they were aimed at satisfying a desire for national prestige in a European imperialistic context, either in the field of knowledge or in the field of trade.
Expeditions as Experiments
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 which different practices can be conducted and where the transformation of uncertain into certain knowledge is tested. The experimental positioning of the expedition brings together an ensemble of techniques, strategies, material agents and social actors, and illuminates the steps leading from observation to facts and documentation. The chapters show the variety of scientific interests that motivated expeditions with their focus on natural history, geology, ichthyology, botany, zoology, helminthology, speleology, physical anthropology, oceanography, meteorology and magnetism.
Scientific Exploration and Expeditions
Focuses on the scientific goals and accomplishments of explorers and expeditions, from the fifteenth century to the present day, and how the sciences benefited from these voyages of discovery.
Early Scientific Expeditions and Local Encounters
The publisher writes: Rise to publish this book's 250-year anniversary of the Royal Danish expedition to Arabia in the years 1761 to 1767. The work consists of a preamble and 14 articles, written by various experts. They examine each new aspects of the Danish expedition methods and results. From the 1700s onwards did Europeans terrestrial scientific travel, and that meant more and longer meetings between locals and visitors researchers. A number of these meetings are discussed in the book. Other articles examine the scientific questions that expeditions and travelers were sent out to solve, and describes how the travelers brought their observations back to Europe and got them communicated to other researchers and the interested public. Participants in the Danish expedition to Arabia, especially Niebuhr and naturalist Forsskål, was characterized by respect for the locals, they met on their journey. It was no ordinary position at that time. Their methods of exploration of local knowledge marked something new in the study of foreign cultures and their interaction with nature.
Science on Ice
An oceanographer and award-winning photographer, Linder chronicles four polar expeditions in this richly illustrated volume: to a teeming colony of Adľie penguins, through the icy waters of the Bering Sea in spring, beneath the pack ice of the eastern Arctic Ocean, and over the lake-studded surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
