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Eclipsed by history : underrecognized contributions to early british solar eclipse expeditions
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dc.contributor.author | Beckles, Joel | |
dc.contributor.author | Kent, Deborah | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-26T10:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-05-26T10:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05-24 | |
dc.identifier | 284387234 | |
dc.identifier | 3792d1e2-4516-4184-8945-9e696a857837 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Beckles , J & Kent , D 2023 , ' Eclipsed by history : underrecognized contributions to early british solar eclipse expeditions ' , Notes and Records of the Royal Society , vol. Ahead of Print . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0001 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0035-9149 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-5412-6552/work/135851214 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/27679 | |
dc.description | Funding: Royal Astronomical Society - History of Astronomy Summer Research Bursary. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Solar eclipse expeditions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to new scientific knowledge that is often credited to prominent male scientists such as Einstein and Eddington. Results generated by named individuals nonetheless depended on the collective effort of scientific administrators, government functionaries, manual labourers, domestic assistants, naval crew members and others. Much substantive work, essential to the success of the scientific ventures, was often done by people local to the observing stations. This paper focuses on British solar eclipse expeditions in 1889 and 1919 to highlight ways in which contributions of women and of people in colonized lands have been underrecognized by the expeditioners and in subsequent narratives about them. | |
dc.format.extent | 22 | |
dc.format.extent | 2465066 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Notes and Records of the Royal Society | en |
dc.subject | Eclipse expeditions | en |
dc.subject | Invisible labour | en |
dc.subject | Nineteenth-century astronomy | en |
dc.subject | Women in astronomy | en |
dc.subject | T-DAS | en |
dc.title | Eclipsed by history : underrecognized contributions to early british solar eclipse expeditions | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Pure Mathematics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rsnr.2023.0001 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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