From King's Instrument Repository to National Physical Laboratory : Kew Observatory, physics and the Victorian world, 1840-1900
This thesis attempts to fill a notable gap in the literature on nineteenth-century science, by writing the history of Kew Observatory between 1840 and 1900 as an institution. I frame this institutional history within three overall questions:- 1) What can the history of Kew Observatory tell us about...
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University of Leeds
2015
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675030 |