Masons, tricksters and cartographers : makers of knowledge and space / David Turnbull.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turnbull, David, 1943-

Series:

Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.

Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Technology--Social aspects.

Technology.

Science and civilization--History.

Science and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Harwood Academic ; Abingdon : Marston, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and hetero

Contents:

Cover; Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction From rationality to messiness: Rethinking technoscientific knowledge; Chapter 1 'On with the motley': The contingent assemblage of knowledge spaces; Chapter 2 Talk, templates and tradition: How the masons built Chartres Cathedral without plans; Chapter 3 Tricksters and cartographers: Maps, science and the state in the making of a modern scientific knowledge space; Chapter 4 Pacific navigation: An alternative scientific tradition

Chapter 5 Making malaria curable: Extending a knowledge space to create a vaccine Chapter 6 Messiness and order in turbulence research; Conclusion Rationality, relativism and the politics of knowledge; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

1-135-28820-8

1-280-02331-7

0-203-30458-6

1-135-28821-6

90-5823-001-5

9786610023318

9780203304587

OCLC:

437084419