Weathering the empire: Meteorological research in the early nineteenth-century Straits Settlements

This article explores meteorological interest and experimentation in the early history of the Straits Settlements. It centres on the establishment of an observatory in 1840s Singapore and examines the channels that linked the observatory to a global community of scientists, colonial officers and a r...

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Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2662
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3919/viewcontent/BJH1500028_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English