Instruments, travel and science : itineraries of precision from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / edited by Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Christian Licoppe, and H. Otto Sibum
Golden means : assay instruments and the geography of precision in the Guinea trade / Simon Schaffer -- The project for a map of Languedoc in eighteenth-century France at the contested intersection between astronomy and geography : the problem of co-ordination between philosophers, instruments and observations as a keystone of modernity / Christian Licoppe -- The travels and trials of Mr Harrison's timekeeper / Jim Bennett -- Landscape with numbers : natural history, travel and instruments in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Marie-Noëlle Bourguet -- Appropriating invention : the reception of the voltaic battery in Europe / Giuliano Pancaldi -- When human travellers become instruments : the Indo-British exploration of Central Asia in the nineteenth century / Kapil Raj -- The manufacture of species : Kew Gardens, the Empire, and the standardisation of taxonomic practices in late nineteenth-century botany / Christophe Bonneuil -- Exploring the margins of precision / H. Otto Sibum -- Travelling light / Richard Staley -- Travelling knowledge : narratives, assemblage and encounters / David Turnbull
