Spaces of Enlightenment Science: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy, cartea 8
Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewarten Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 ian 2022
Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004501218
ISBN-10: 9004501215
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy
ISBN-10: 9004501215
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy
Cuprins
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart
2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley’s ‘True Academick Life’
Rob Iliffe
3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe
Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza
4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
5 ‘My Collection in All Its Branches’: The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence
Alice Marples
6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic Wars
Trevor H. Levere
7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science
Marie Thébaud-Sorger
8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760–1815
Larry Stewart
9 “Both by Sea and Land”: William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space
Simon Werret
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction
Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart
2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley’s ‘True Academick Life’
Rob Iliffe
3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe
Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza
4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
5 ‘My Collection in All Its Branches’: The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence
Alice Marples
6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic Wars
Trevor H. Levere
7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science
Marie Thébaud-Sorger
8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760–1815
Larry Stewart
9 “Both by Sea and Land”: William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space
Simon Werret
Index
Notă biografică
Gordon McOuat is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. His works include "The Origins of Natural Kinds" (2009), "J.B.S. Haldane’s Passage to India: reconfiguring science" (2017), and several co-edited volumes, including Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Taylor and Francis, 2017).
Larry Stewart is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Associated Scholar at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His numerous articles and books on Early Modern science include Rise of Public Science (CUP 1992), Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (with Margaret Jacob, Harvard, 2004), and co-edited volumes including The Romance of Science (Springer, 2017), Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), and Uses of Humans in Experiment (Brill, 2016).
Larry Stewart is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Associated Scholar at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His numerous articles and books on Early Modern science include Rise of Public Science (CUP 1992), Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (with Margaret Jacob, Harvard, 2004), and co-edited volumes including The Romance of Science (Springer, 2017), Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), and Uses of Humans in Experiment (Brill, 2016).