Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226487261 ISBN 13 : 9780226487267

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. 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. Chapters from a distinguished range of contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and reception, and the import of exchange networks at various scales. Studies range from the inspection of the places of London science, which show how different scientific sites operated different moral and epistemic economies, to the scrutiny of the ways in which the museum space of the Smithsonian Institution and the expansive space of the American West produced science and framed geographical understanding. This volume makes clear that the science of this era varied in its constitution and reputation in relation to place and personnel, in its nature by virtue of its different epistemic practices, in its audiences, and in the ways in which it was put to work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David N. Livingstone is professor of geography and intellectual history at Queen's University, Belfast.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226487261
• ISBN 13: 9780226487267
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 526
• Éditeur: Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.
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