The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
This thesis charts the globalising role of British geomagnetism in the age of revolution and reform. In the earlier decades of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking three momentous magnetic enterprises: Admiralty reform of practical magnetic...
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Format: | Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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University of Cambridge
2019
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Online Access: | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/308350 https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.55441 |