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portada Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2020
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.9x14.7x2.3 cm
Weight
0.50 kg.
ISBN13
9781421438542
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Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century

Mayhew, Robert J. ; Withers, Charles W. J. (Author) · Johns Hopkins University Press · Hardcover

Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century - Mayhew, Robert J. ; Withers, Charles W. J.

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Synopsis "Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century"

A path-breaking exploration of how space, place, and scale influenced the production and circulation of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.Over the past twenty years, scholars have increasingly questioned not just historical presumptions about the putative rise of modern science during the long nineteenth century but also the geographical contexts for and variability of science during the era. In Geographies of Knowledge, an internationally distinguished array of historians and geographers examine the spatialization of science in the period, tracing the ways in which scale and space are crucial to understanding the production, dissemination, and reception of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.Engaging with and extending the influential work of David Livingstone and others on science's spatial dimensions, the book touches on themes of empire, gender, religion, Darwinism, and much more. In exploring the practice of science across four continents, these essays illuminate the importance of geographical perspectives to the study of science and knowledge, and how these ideas made and contested locally could travel the globe.Dealing with everything from the local spaces of the Surrey countryside to the global negotiations that proposed a single prime meridian, from imperial knowledge creation and exploration in Burma, India, and Africa to studies of metropolitan scientific-cum-theological tussles in Belfast and in Confederate America, Geographies of Knowledge outlines an interdisciplinary agenda for the study of science as geographically situated sets of practices in the era of its modern disciplinary construction. More than that, it outlines new possibilities for all those interested in knowledge's spatial characteristics in other periods. Contributors: John A. Agnew, Vinita Damodaran, Diarmid A. Finnegan, Nuala C. Johnson, Dane Kennedy, Robert J. Mayhew, Mark Noll, Ronald L. Numbers, Nicolaas Rupke, Yvonne Sherratt, Charles W. J. Withers

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