Geographies of nineteenth-century science
By: edited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780226487267
Description: Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking geographically about nineteenth-century science / Charles W. J. Withers and David N. Livingstone; title: Sites and scales; title: Refashioning the spaces of London science: Elite epistemes in the nineteenth century / Bernard Lightman; title: The status of museums: Authority, identity, and material culture / Samuel J. M. M. Alberti; title: Cultivating genetics in the country: Whittingehame Lodge, Cambridge / Donald L. Opitz; title: Scale and the geographies of civic science: Practice and experience in the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c. 1845-1900 / Charles W. J. Withers; title: Islanded: natural history in the British colonization of Ceylon / Sujit Sivasundaram; title: Practices and performances; title: Placing science in an age of oratory: Spaces of scientific speech in mid-victorian Edinburgh / Diarmid A. Finnegan; title: Politics, culture, and human origins: Geographies of reading and reputation in nineteenth-century science / David N. Livingstone; title: Electricity and the sociable circulation of fear and fearlessness / Graeme Gooday; title: "The 'crinoline' of our steam engineers": Reinventing the marine compound engine, 1850-1885 / Crosbie Smith; title: Expeditionary science: Conflicts of method in mid-nineteenth-century geographical discovery / Lawrence Dritsas; title: Guides and audiences; title: Pressed into service: Specimens, space, and seeing in botanical practice / Anne Secord; title: Science, print, and crossing borders: Importing French science books into Britain, 1789-1815 / Jonathan R. Topham; title: Geological mapping and the geographies of proprietorship in nineteenth-century Cornwall / Simon Naylor; title: Natural history and the Victorian tourist: from landscapes to rock-pools / Aileen Fyfe; title: Place and museum space: The Smithsonian Institution, national identity, and the American west, 1846-1896 / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt; title: Afterword: Putting the geography of science in its place / Nicolaas Rupke.