Back to matchesWe found a matchYour institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.TitleOriental Metrology and the Politics of Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Survey Sciences.AuthorsSchaffer, SimonAbstractThe article discusses survey work by indigenous Egyptian astronomers during the later part of the nineteenth-century to explore the variousversions of antiquity at stake in the metrological programs.SubjectsASTRONOMERS; METROLOGY; HISTORYPublicationScience in Context (0269-8897), 2017, Vol 30, Issue 2, p173ISSN0269-8897Publication typeArticleDOI10.1017/S0269889717000102