Spaces of Enlightenment Science / Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McOuat, Gordon, author.

Stewart, Larry, 1946- author.

Series:

Knowledge insight series ; Volume 8.

Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy Series ; Volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Europe--History--17th century.

Science.

Science--Europe--History--18th century.

Science rooms and equipment--Europe--History.

Science rooms and equipment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004501225

9004501223

OCLC:

1288424060