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The astronomer's chair : a visual and cultural history / Omar W. Nasim.
LIBRA QB85.8 .N37 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nasim, Omar W., 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy--Equipment and supplies--History.
- Astronomy.
- Chairs--History.
- Chairs.
- Chair design--History.
- Chair design.
- Astronomy--Equipment and supplies.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 295 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "A historical and cultural study of astronomers' chairs, their design and function, and their connection to 19th-century concepts of race, class, gender, and power"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Astronomer's Chair and Its Fields
- An Old Motif
- Chairs in Perspective
- Image and Object
- Representational Fields
- At Home, Abroad, and Within
- Contrasting Fields
- At the Observatory
- Summary of Chapters
- 2. Home, Hierarchy, History
- Differentiated Home
- Interior Navigation
- Enlightened Postures
- Visible Character
- Middle-Class Comfort
- Civilizing Comfort
- Ordered History
- Manufactured Orient
- 3. Mechanical Comforts
- Manufactured Mechanics
- Patents and Innovation
- Professionalized Chairs
- "Invalid" Chairs
- Wheelchairs to Observing Chairs
- Bourgeois Observatories
- Chairs, Bodies, Telescopes
- The "Comfortable Telescope"
- Standing or Sitting
- 4. Cross Legged Astronomy
- Observing the Foreign
- Napoleon's Arab Astronomer
- "National Postures"
- Fate and Free Will
- Undifferentiated Labor
- Fixed Emasculation
- Space, Time, Motion
- Postures of Knowledge
- Chaired Native, Cross-Legged Self
- A Science in History
- A Cross-Legged Astronomer
- 5. Restless Energies
- Manly Science
- Racialized Energy
- Colonizing Flows
- "No Sleepy Matter"
- Idleness and Fatigue
- Work and Waste
- Hygiene of an Observing Chair
- Visual Economies
- Ocularcentric Comforts
- Armchair Science
- Return of the Ordinary Chair
- Conclusion
- Coda: Freud's "Analytic Divan"
- Freud's Couch and the Astronomer
- Freud's Telescope
- Deep Time Inside.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780262045537
- 0262045532
- OCLC:
- 1201695428
- Publisher Number:
- 99988509201
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