Geographies of Knowledge : Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century

Robert J Mayhew

ISBN 10: 1421438542 / ISBN 13: 9781421438542

Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press Aug 2020, 2020

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Neuware - 'This collection of essays addresses the role of space in the construction and dissemination of scientific ideas in the nineteenth century. The essays pay particular attention to the role of scale, ranging from the local scale of the Surrey countryside to the global spatiality of the prime meridian. The collection opens new avenues for studying the ways that science was a geographically situated set of practices in the nineteenth century'.

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• Titolo: Geographies of Knowledge : Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press Aug 2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1421438542
• ISBN 13: 9781421438542
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 229 L x 147 A x 23 P (millimetri) 229 millimetri di larghezza per 147 millimetri di altezza per 23 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 499 grammi

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A path-breaking exploration of how space, place, and scale influenced the production and circulation of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.

Over the past twenty years, scholars have increasingly questioned not just historical presumptions about the putative rise of modern science during the long nineteenth century but also the geographical contexts for and variability of science during the era. In Geographies of Knowledge, an internationally distinguished array of historians and geographers examine the spatialization of science in the period, tracing the ways in which scale and space are crucial to understanding the production, dissemination, and reception of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.

Engaging with and extending the influential work of David Livingstone and others on science's spatial dimensions, the book touches on themes of empire, gender, religion, Darwinism, and much more. In exploring the practice of science across four continents, these essays illuminate the importance of geographical perspectives to the study of science and knowledge, and how these ideas made and contested locally could travel the globe.

Dealing with everything from the local spaces of the Surrey countryside to the global negotiations that proposed a single prime meridian, from imperial knowledge creation and exploration in Burma, India, and Africa to studies of metropolitan scientific-cum-theological tussles in Belfast and in Confederate America, Geographies of Knowledge outlines an interdisciplinary agenda for the study of science as geographically situated sets of practices in the era of its modern disciplinary construction. More than that, it outlines new possibilities for all those interested in knowledge's spatial characteristics in other periods.

Contributors: John A. Agnew, Vinita Damodaran, Diarmid A. Finnegan, Nuala C. Johnson, Dane Kennedy, Robert J. Mayhew, Mark Noll, Ronald L. Numbers, Nicolaas Rupke, Yvonne Sherratt, Charles W. J. Withers

Informazioni sull?autore

Robert J. Mayhew is a professor of historical geography and intellectual history at the University of Bristol. He is the author of Malthus: The Life and Legacies of an Untimely Prophet. Charles W. J. Withers is professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh and Geographer Royal for Scotland. He is the author of Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian.