Science and the city
By: edited by Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund and J. Andrew Mendelsohn.
Contributors: Dierig, Sven.; Lachmund, Jens.; Mendelsohn, John Andrew, 1965-
Series: Osiris -- 18; Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) -- 2nd ser., v. 18.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Science -- History; Science and civilization; Science -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : toward an urban history of science -- Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund and J. Andrew Mendelsohn; title: The city of Paris and the rise of clinical medicine -- Dora B. Weiner and Michael J. Sauter; title: Friends of nature : urban sociability and regional natural history in Dresden, 1800-1850 -- Denise Phillips; title: Science in a Chinese entrepôt : British naturalists and their Chinese associates in old Canton -- Fa-Ti Fan; title: The fading star of the Paris Observatory in the nineteenth century : astronomers' urban culture of circulation and observation -- David Aubin; title: Organizing sight, seeing organization : the diverging optical possibilities of city and country -- Theresa Levitt; title: Engines for experiment : laboratory revolution and industrial labor in the nineteenth-century city -- Sven Dierig; title: Nineteenth-century urban cartography and the scientific ideal : the case of Paris -- Antoine Picone; title: The microscopist of modern life -- J. Andrew Mendelsohn; title: 'The city of din' : decibels, noise, and neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980 -- Karin Busterveld; title: Anomie in the metropolis : the city in American sociology and psychiatry -- Hans Pols; title: 'Traditional working-class neighborhoods' : an inquiry into the emergence of a sociological model in the 1950s and 1960s -- Christian Topalov; title: Exploring the city of rubble : botanical fieldwork in bombed cities in Germany after World War II -- Jens Lachmund; title: Dreaming the new Atlantis : science and the planning of Technopolis, 1955-1985-- Rosemary Wakeman.