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

• 主要作者: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• 主題: History; Southeast Asia; Meteorology; Social History; Sociology
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2662; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3919/viewcontent/BJH1500028_av.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

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...