ISBN:
0312210531
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 374 p
,
ill
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Science, technology, and medicine in modern history
DDC:
306.4/5
Keywords:
Science History
;
Technology History
;
Science Social aspects
;
History
;
Technology Social aspects
;
History
Abstract:
Projection and the ubiquitous virtue of geometry in the renaissance / Jim Bennett -- From the Alps to Egypt (and back again): Dolomieu, scientific voyaging, and the construction of the field in eighteenth-century natural history / Alix Cooper -- 'I do know the machinery of the universe': system and individuality in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka / Ian Higginson -- 'A most important trespass': Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow chair of civil engineering and mechanics, 1840-55 / Ben Marsden -- 'Nowhere but in a great town': William Thomson's spiral of classroom credibility / Crosbie Smith -- Physics laboratories and the Victorian country house / Simon Schaffer -- Spatial imagery in nineteenth-century representations of science: Faraday and Tyndall / Alice Jenkins -- 'But indifferently lodged...': perception and place in building for science in victorian London / Sophie Forgan -- The premisses: spatial issues in the historical construction of laboratory credibility / Graeme Gooday -- Easy transit: crossing boundaries between physics and chemistry in mid-nineteenth-century France / Mathhias D(c)œrries -- Screening science: spatial organization and valuation at Jodrell Bank / Jon Agar -- Biotechnology's private parts (and some public ones) / Thomas F. Gieryn -- 'Nobody can force you when you are across the ocean' - face to face and e-mail exchanges between theoretical physicists / Martina Merz -- Scientific knowledge, power and space / Alex Dolby
Description / Table of Contents:
Projection and the ubiquitous virtue of geometry in the renaissance / Jim Bennett -- From the Alps to Egypt (and back again): Dolomieu, scientific voyaging, and the construction of the field in eighteenth-century natural history / Alix Cooper -- 'I do know the machinery of the universe': system and individuality in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka / Ian Higginson -- 'A most important trespass': Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow chair of civil engineering and mechanics, 1840-55 / Ben Marsden -- 'Nowhere but in a great town': William Thomson's spiral of classroom credibility / Crosbie Smith -- Physics laboratories and the Victorian country house / Simon Schaffer -- Spatial imagery in nineteenth-century representations of science: Faraday and Tyndall / Alice Jenkins -- 'But indifferently lodged...': perception and place in building for science in victorian London / Sophie Forgan -- The premisses: spatial issues in the historical construction of laboratory credibility / Graeme Gooday -- Easy transit: crossing boundaries between physics and chemistry in mid-nineteenth-century France / Mathhias Dörries -- Screening science: spatial organization and valuation at Jodrell Bank / Jon Agar -- Biotechnology's private parts (and some public ones) / Thomas F. Gieryn -- 'Nobody can force you when you are across the ocean' - face to face and e-mail exchanges between theoretical physicists / Martina Merz -- Scientific knowledge, power and space / Alex Dolby.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-361) and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol057/97028072.html
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol055/97028072.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/hol052/97028072.html
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