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Spaces of Enlightenment science / edited by Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
McOuat, Gordon, editor.
Stewart, Larry, 1946- editor.
E.J. Brill (Firm)
Series:
History of science and medicine library. Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; volume 8.
Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy, 1877-2323 ; volume 8
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Science--Europe--History--17th century.
Science.
Science--Europe--History--18th century.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
History.
Laboratories.
Science rooms and equipment.
Europe.
Science rooms and equipment--Europe--History.
Laboratories--Europe--History.
Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
Enlightenment--Europe.
Enlightenment.
Space.
Place (Philosophy).
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Introduction / Gordon McOuat and Larry Stew art
Escape from Capnopolis : William Stukeley's 'True academick life' / Rob Iliffe
Something is in the air : experimental spaces, analogical reasoning, and the problem of putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe / Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza
Instrument makers, shops, and expertise in eighteenth-century London / Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
'My collection in all its branches' : the imagined space of early modern scientific correspondence / Alice Marples
The dissemination of chemical theory and chemical instruments through cabinets, laboratories, lecture theatres and museums during the Napoleonic Wars / Trevor H. Levere
The public space of knowledge and the public sphere of science / Marie Thébaud-Sorger
The space between : James Dinwiddie and the transit of science, 1760-1815 / Larry Stewart
"Both by sea and land" : William Whiston, longitude, and the measurement of space / Simon Werrett.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Leiden, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Other Format:
Online version: Spaces of Enlightenment science
ISBN:
9789004501225
9004501223
Publisher Number:
40030918442
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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