Spaces of Enlightenment Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50121-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

Reihe: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy

Where did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the “geographies of knowledge”, it examines the relationship between “space” and “place”, institutions, “objects”, and “ideas”, showing the ways in which the location of science really matters.

Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

McOuat, Gordon

Stewart, Larry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart

2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley’s ‘True Academick Life’

Rob Iliffe

3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe

Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza

4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London

Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin

5 ‘My Collection in All Its Branches’: The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence

Alice Marples

6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic Wars

Trevor H. Levere

7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science

Marie Thébaud-Sorger

8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760–1815

Larry Stewart

9 “Both by Sea and Land”: William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space

Simon Werret

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gordon McOuat is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. His works include "The Origins of Natural Kinds" (2009), "J.B.S. Haldane’s Passage to India: reconfiguring science" (2017), and several co-edited volumes, including Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Taylor and Francis, 2017).

Larry Stewart is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Associated Scholar at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His numerous articles and books on Early Modern science include Rise of Public Science (CUP 1992), Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (with Margaret Jacob, Harvard, 2004), and co-edited volumes including The Romance of Science (Springer, 2017), Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), and Uses of Humans in Experiment (Brill, 2016).