A Portable World: The Notebooks of European Travellers (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

Bourguet, Marie-Noëlle

doi:10.1080/17496977.2010.492617

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“…Observation, inscription and a reliance upon instrumentation went hand in hand (Daston 2011). That is why natural philosophers regularly cautioned about the need for accurate observation and on‐the‐spot recording: ‘the rationale for travel note‐taking derived from the twin dangers of an unruly observation in the field and an unreliable memory’ (Bourguet 2010, 381). As Leopold Berchtold noted in section IV of his 1789 book, ‘On committing observations to paper’, regulated observations were essential but so, too, was their committal to paper: ‘It is advisable to do it upon the spot, if the time, the place, and the circumstances will admit of it; even such observations that promise but a remote advantage, should be written down as soon as convenient’ (Berchtold 1789, 43).…”

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Science, scientific instruments and questions of method in nineteenth‐century British geography

Withers

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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The paper explores the promotion of method in nineteenth-century British geography. Attention is paid to the emphasis accorded scientific instruments in a period when scientific subjects were, in practice and in personnel, 'disciplining' themselves. The role ascribed to scientific instruments and method is examined with reference to the work in the Royal Geographical Society of Julian R. Jackson and his What to observe, or the traveller's remembrancer (1841), and William Hamilton's essay on geographical methods in John Herschel's Manual of scientific enquiry (1849). These works are further explored with reference to two related texts, the Society's Hints to travellers (Raper and Fitzroy 1854) and Francis Galton's The art of travel (1855). The paper for the first time brings together evidence for the place of scientific instruments within geography's methodological pronouncements with scholarship in the history of technology and the history of science. In doing so, the paper highlights the importance of critical histories of geography's methods, instruments and associated practices. The conclusion addresses the implications of such research for providing yet richer histories of geography that might address not just the subject's cognitive content and institutional context but matters of epistemological procedure, moral conduct and authorial regimen in relation to precision instrumentation.

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Science, scientific instruments and questions of method in nineteenth‐century British geography

Withers

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…We are calling for attention, through study of publishers’ archives, to the processes of authoring and editing ‘behind’ printed books themselves and other sources, to the precariousness in historical context of the category ‘geographical author’ and to the constitutive and relational processes of authoring and editing. Others have begun to do so for travellers’ notebooks (Bourguet 2010). Attention hitherto given to the facts of what is written as printed account might now turn to the variances between stages of a narrative’s production, and to how the author, in concert with others, worked to order their words in order to claim authoritativeness in the eyes of given audiences.…”

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Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration,c.1815–c.1857

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Keighren

2011

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper examines the relationships between authorship and editing in the production of narratives of travel and exploration. The context to the paper is the widespread interest in exploration and travel writing in geography and related fields, and the materialist hermeneutic apparent in the conjunction of geography, book history and the history of science. Through assessment of archival and printed evidence relating to the authorship and editing of books of travel and exploration published by the leading British publisher, John Murray, the paper examines the redactive relationships between writer and editor-publisher, illustrates the means by which authors sought status in their words and explores how Murray authorised explorers' words and works. In addressing the complex connections between author and editor, manuscript and print, private correspondence and public audience, the paper has implications for researchers in geography interested in the specific relationships between writing and print, and in the general connections between geography, book history and the history of science.key words geography travel narratives materialist hermeneutics authorship editorial redaction exploration

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“…While Latour's notion of "paperwork" described inscriptions solely as the infrastructure of knowledge transmission, the second approach, which can be related to Ursula Klein's notion of "paper tools," delved into the particular role of formal inscriptions in the formation and exploration of research objects. Similar functions can be attributed to more ordinary uses of writing, such as in notebooks, lab journals, and field notes (see, for example, Welfelé 1998-99;Hoffmann 2003;Rheinberger 2003;Daston 2004;te Heesen 2005;Gunn 2009;Bourguet 2010;Wickman 2010). In the context of medicine, a number of studies has shown how closely the organization of work and the production of knowledge are related to writing reports, filling out forms, and collecting and reworking files (cf.…”

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Introduction: Knowledge in the Making: Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques

Hoffmann

Wittmann

2013

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ArgumentDrawing and writing number among the most widespread scientific practices of representation. Neither photography, graphic recording apparatuses, typewriters, nor digital word-and imageprocessing ever completely replaced drawing and writing by hand. The interaction of hand, paper, and pen indeed involves much more than simply recording or visualizing what was previously thought, observed, or imagined. Both writing and drawing have the power to translate concepts and observations into two-dimensional, manageable, reproducible objects. They help to develop research questions and they open up an interaction between the gathering of phenomena and the formation of theses. Related to the manifold studies of representational activities in the sciences and the humanities, this topical issue tries to refine our understanding of the capacities of drawing and writing as research techniques; i.e. as productive epistemic practices. In particular the contributions address three aspects: the material conditions and configurations of the "scene of drawing and writing," the involved procedures of production, and the languages of inscription.

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A Portable World: The Notebooks of European Travellers (Eighteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

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Science, scientific instruments and questions of method in nineteenth‐century British geography

Science, scientific instruments and questions of method in nineteenth‐century British geography

Travels into print: authoring, editing and narratives of travel and exploration,c.1815–c.1857

Introduction: Knowledge in the Making: Drawing and Writing as Research Techniques

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