Geographies of science
By: Peter Meusburger, David N. Livingstone, Heike Jöns, editors
Contributors: Klaus Tschira Stiftung
Series: Knowledge and space -- v. 3; Knowledge and space -- v. 3.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9789048186105; 9789048186112
Subjects: Architecture and science; Exhibitions; Social aspects; Science; Science museums; Science and civilization; Study and teaching; Geography; History
Description: This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians of science.
Notes: KTS, Klaus Tschira Stiftung's logo on t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Interdisciplinary geographies of science / Heike Jöns, David N. Livingstone, and Peter Meusburger; title: Landscapes of knowledge / David N. Livingstone; title: Global knowledge? / Nico Stehr; title: A geohistorical study of "the rise of modern science" : mapping scientific practice through urban networks, 1500-1900 / Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler, and David M. Evans; title: From mediocrity and existential crisis to scientific excellence : Heidelberg University between 1803 and 1932 / Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch; title: Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centers of knowledge, 1885-1954 / Heike Jöns; title: Big sciences, open networks, and global collecting in early museums / Dominik Collet; title: Is the atrium more important than the lab? : designer buildings for new cultures of creativity / Albena Yaneva; title: Outer space of science : a video ethnography of reagency in Ghana / Wesley M. Shrum, Ricardo B. Duque, and Marcus Antonius Ynalvez; title: The making of geographies of knowledge at world's fairs : Morocco at Expo 2000 in Hanover / Alexa Färber; title: Geographies of science and public understanding? : exploring the reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c. 1845-1939 / Charles W.J. Withers; title: Testing times : experimental counter-conduct in interwar Germany / Alexander Vasudevan; title: NGOs, the science-lay dichotomy, and hybrid spaces of environmental knowledge / Sally Eden; title: Regulatory science and risk assessment in Indian country : taking tribal publics into account / Ryan Holifield.