UGST4077 - Cultures of Quantification (Winter 2023)
Section outline
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Simon Schaffer, "Astronomers mark time: Discipline and the personal equation," Science in Context 2 (1988): 115-145.
Further resources:
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, “Gender, Culture, and Astrophysical Fieldwork: Elizabeth Campbell and the Lick Observatory–Crocker Eclipse Expeditions,” Osiris 11 (1996): 17–43.Christoph Hoffmann, “Constant Differences: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, the Concept of the Observer in Early Nineteenth-Century Practical Astronomy and the History of the Personal Equation,” The British Journal for the History of Science 40 (2007): 333–65.