Title: Making space for science : territorial themes in the shaping of knowledge /
Authors: Smith, Crosbie.; Agar, Jon.; Schmidt, Gerald.; University of Manchester.
Publisher: Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Science History; Technology History; Science Social aspects History.; Technology Social aspects History; Science history; Technology history
Abstract: In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. Without these contexts, indeed, scientific practice as such is scarcely conceivable. Making Space for Science brings together contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology and cultural studies of science and technology since the Renaissance. The editors aim to provide a series of studies, drawn from the history of science and engineering, from sociology and sociology and science, from literature and science, and from architecture and design history, which examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.
Contents: Projection and the ubiquitous virtue of geometry in the renaissance / Jim Bennett -- From the Alps to Egypt (and back again): Dolomieu, scientific voyaging, and the construction of the field in eighteenth-century natural history / Alix Cooper -- 'I do know the machinery of the universe': system and individuality in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka / Ian Higginson -- 'A most important trespass': Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow chair of civil engineering and mechanics, 1840-55 / Ben Marsden -- 'Nowhere but in a great town': William Thomson's spiral of classroom credibility / Crosbie Smith -- Physics laboratories and the Victorian country house / Simon Schaffer -- Spatial imagery in nineteenth-century representations of science: Faraday and Tyndall / Alice Jenkins -- 'But indifferently lodged ... ': perception and place in building for science in victorian London / Sophie Forgan -- The premisses: spatial issues in the historical construction of laboratory credibility / Graeme Gooday -- Easy transit: crossing boundaries between physics and chemistry in mid-nineteenth-century France / Mathhias Dörries -- Screening science: spatial organization and valuation at Jodrell Bank / Jon Agar -- Biotechnology's private parts (and some public ones) / Thomas F. Gieryn -- 'Nobody can force you when you are across the ocean' -- face to face and e-mail exchanges between theoretical physicists / Martina Merz -- Scientific knowledge, power and space / Alex Dolby.