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Experiencing Deep and Global Currents at a ‘prototypical Strait’, 1870s and 1980s (2018)

Camprubí, Lino (Author)

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Volume: 70
Pages: 6-17
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

URI: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368118301365

DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2018.05.004

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Proxy measurement; proxy data Science and technology studies (STS) Philosophy of science Oceanography Globalization; internationalization 20th century 19th century Gibraltar Carpenter, William Benjamin

Deep ocean currents are not accessible to direct human perception. Their insertion into global structures of circulation is even more profoundly removed from individual sensorial experience. But oceanographers tend to use wider concepts of experience to include instruments, traditions of observation and theoretical models. Historians and philosophers of science, as well as STS scholars, have also redefined scientific experience as operational and collective transformations of parts of the world around us into fragments of larger bodies of knowledge. This paper pursues this definition to follow the instrumental and epistemological resources available to those “observing” deep-water circulation at the Strait of Gibraltar in two very distinct moments, ca. 1870 and ca. 1985, respectively through the works of scientists like William B. Carpenter and the transnational team involved in the Gibraltar Experiment. Detecting and mapping the Gibraltar undercurrent necessitated taking data of temperature and salinity as proxies for masses of water. Making it relevant to world ocean currents required the use of models and moving across scales. In both contexts, empires of global reach provided the globalizing motivations and infrastructures.

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Article Lino Camprubí; Philipp Lehmann (2018) The Scales of Experience: Introduction to the Special Issue Experiencing the Global Environment. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 1-5). unapi

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