A major aspect of 19th-century astronomy was the move toward greater precision both in methods of calculation and in quantitative methods of observation.
How do you use "fieldwork methods of observation and walking to compile an inventory which explore[s] the act of naming of local elements through oral inscription"?
He made a large-scale plan of Beaune during a visit in 1762, devising methods of observation and constructing the necessary surveying instruments.
For his part in the drama, the young medical student puts aside his doubts and learns to apply the same methods of observation and analysis to several baffling cases under Dr. Bell's investigation, including a series of macabre murders that eerily anticipate the handiwork of Jack the Ripper.
Caviedes, as did other poets of the Barroco de Indias, found the scholastic "science" of the time lacking and showed a modern impatience with its crude methods of observation and reliance on received authority.
Constable was also drawn to local landscapes rather than classic Mediterranean ones, and rather than transforming these into grand mythologies or allegories, he painted them using scientific methods of observation drawn from new fields like meteorology.
Six regional associations (Africa, Asia, South America, North and Central America, South-West Pacific, and Europe) address problems peculiar to their regions, and eight technical commissions (aeronautical meteorology, agricultural meteorology, atmospheric sciences, basic systems, climatology, hydrology, instruments and methods of observation, and marine meteorology) meet every four years.
and so Helmholtz had to resort to what he called 'artificial methods of observation' (Olesko and Holmes 1994, 84).
To determine the presence of the carnivore, we used the following methods of observation: (1) photographs via camera trapping surveys.
Yung Sik Kim examines the extent to which Zhu anticipated genuine scientific methods of observation and conceptualization in The Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (2000).
