Question

what are the similarities in climate of Europe and Africa​

Answer 1

Project (2016-2017)

Data That Travel: Climates between Africa, Europe, and the Globe

DEPT. DASTON

THE SCIENCES OF THE ARCHIVE

EXPERIENCING THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

PHILIPP NICOLAS LEHMANN

"Data That Travel: Climates Between Africa and Europe" examines the conditions of climatological data collection efforts in colonial Africa and the processes of selection and translation that occurred between the sites of recording and publication. The project focuses particularly on the everyday practices and difficulties of both European and African practitioners in the colonies. While governmental policies aimed at producing standardized—and thus globally comparable and economically useful—data in different environments, these efforts often tended to break down in practice. Rather than being able to turn the field into a finely tuned laboratory, the data gatherers were confronted with complex and challenging infrastructural, institutional, and environmental realities—ranging from the lack of instruments to unknown meteorological phenomena—and had to develop place-specific strategies to deal with these issues.