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.
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9780226487298
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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