Geographies of science / Peter Meusburger, David N. Livingstone, Heike Jöns, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meusburger, Peter.

Livingstone, David N., 1953-

Jöns, Heike, 1973-

Klaus Tschira Stiftung.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Knowledge and space ; v. 3.

Knowledge and space ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects--History.

Science.

Science--Study and teaching--History.

Architecture and science.

Geography--Social aspects.

Geography.

Science and civilization.

Science museums--History.

Science museums.

Science--Exhibitions.

History.

Science--Study and teaching.

Science--Social aspects.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xvii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2010]

Contents:

Interdisciplinary geographies of science / Heike Jöns, David N. Livingstone, and Peter Meusburger

Landscapes of knowledge / David N. Livingstone

Global knowledge? / Nico Stehr

A geohistorical study of "the rise of modern science" : mapping scientific practice through urban networks, 1500-1900 / Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler, and David M. Evans

From mediocrity and existential crisis to scientific excellence : Heidelberg University between 1803 and 1932 / Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch

Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centers of knowledge, 1885-1954 / Heike Jöns

Big sciences, open networks, and global collecting in early museums / Dominik Collet

Is the atrium more important than the lab? : designer buildings for new cultures of creativity / Albena Yaneva

Outer space of science : a video ethnography of reagency in Ghana / Wesley M. Shrum, Ricardo B. Duque, and Marcus Antonius Ynalvez

The making of geographies of knowledge at world's fairs : Morocco at Expo 2000 in Hanover / Alexa Färber

Geographies of science and public understanding? : exploring the reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c. 1845-1939 / Charles W.J. Withers

Testing times : experimental counter-conduct in interwar Germany / Alexander Vasudevan

NGOs, the science-lay dichotomy, and hybrid spaces of environmental knowledge / Sally Eden

Regulatory science and risk assessment in Indian country : taking tribal publics into account / Ryan Holifield.

Notes:

KTS, Klaus Tschira Stiftung's logo on t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9789048186105

9048186102

OCLC:

471803593

Publisher Number:

99939891519