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Spaces of Enlightenment science / edited by Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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