An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Survey in the Age of Imperialism

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An Empire of Magnetism: Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Preface
	0° 24′ North, 330° 19′ East: 3 December 1839
Introduction: Empires of Magnetism
	0.1. A History of a Global Science
	0.2. The State of Science
	0.3. From Regional Experiment to Global System
1: Steam-Engine Economy and the Heat of the Mine in Early Nineteenth-Century Cornwall
	1.1. Economies of Coal
	1.2. Cornwall’s Societies and Patrons of Science
	1.3. Pressure, Steam, and Subterranean Heat
	1.4. The Earth’s Great Heat
	1.5. Conclusion
2: The Earth’s Laboratory: Underground Experiments, Philosophical Miners, and Knowledge from the Mine
	2.1. Mine Experiments
	2.2. Rejection at the Royal Society
	2.3. Philosophical Miners
	2.4. Credibility and Consensus
	2.5. Conclusion
3: Survey and Science: Polar Expeditions, Terrestrial Magnetism, and the Instruments of Empire, 1815–1839
	3.1. The Science of Terrestrial Magnetism
	3.2. Fox’s Dipping Needle
	3.3. Sir John Franklin and the Magnetism of the British Isles
	3.4. Europe and the Atlantic
	3.5. Conclusion
4: The Antarctic Foxes: Dipping Needles on James Clark Ross’s South Pole Expedition, 1838–1843
	4.1. International Fox: The Navy, Europe, and the Atlantic
	4.2. The British Magnetic Scheme
	4.3. Dipping Needles on the Atlantic
	4.4. Into the Southern Hemisphere
	4.5. Magnetic Contributions
	4.6. Conclusion
5: Expedition and Experiment: The British Magnetic Scheme, 1841–1843
	5.1. The Niger Expedition
	5.2. Instrumental Upheavals
	5.3. Lefroy and the North American Challenge
	5.4. Conclusion
6: Discovery, Disaster, and the Dipping Needle: Britain’s Global Magnetic System, 1843–1850
	6.1. Science on HMS Samarang
	6.2. Magnetic Miseries
	6.3. The Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake
	6.4. Relics and Rejects: The Franklin Expedition
	6.5. Conclusion
7: The Twilight of Cornish Science and the Systematization of Oceanic Navigation, 1850–1907
	7.1. Trusting Wilton
	7.2. Reporting the BMS
	7.3. The British Isles Survey of 1857
	7.4. Systems of Navigation
	7.5. Conclusion
Epilogue: Global Science in an Age of Empire
	8.1. Reputation and Endurance
	8.2. Global Systems
Select Bibliography
	1. Primary Material
		1.1. Manuscripts
		1.2. Parliamentary Papers
		1.3. Periodicals
		1.4. Printed
		1.5. Private Papers
	2. Secondary Material
		2.1. Published
		2.2. Unpublished
Index