UID:
almahu_9949707797002882
Format:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004501225
Series Statement:
Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy Series ; v.8
Content:
Spaces of Enlightenment Science explores the places, spaces, and exchanges where science of the Early Modern period got done, bringing together leading historians of science to examine the geographies of knowledge in the Enlightenment period.
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 1 The Importance of Place -- 2 Ruminating About Place, Space, and "Universal" Science -- 3 Local Origins: Turning Around a Needham Question -- 4 Multiple Places -- 5 Geographies of Knowledge: Place vs. Space and Places of Accumulation and Control -- 2. Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley's 'True Academick Life' -- 1 An Inclination to Retirement -- 2 The Spoils of the Dead -- 3 The Perils of Fumopolis -- 4 Grantham: Useful Pleasure and the Sylva Academi -- 5 Living and Dying in Stamford -- 6 London: Sociable Solitude -- 3. Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Army Medicine and John Pringle's Experimental Program -- 3 Mme Thiroux d'Arconville's Essay on Putrefaction -- 4 Problems of Application: Antiseptics for Anatomical Preparations -- 5 From Mme Thiroux d'Arconville to David Macbride: Fixing Antiseptics -- 6 Animating Putrefaction at the Dijon Academy -- 7 The Economy of Nature: Likening the Living to the Dead -- 4. Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London -- 1 Organisation of Space -- 2 Workshops and Working Practices -- 3 The Instrument Maker's Shop and Display Strategies -- 4 Identifying and Asserting Expertise and Authorship -- 5 Conclusion -- 5. 'My Collection in All Its Branches': The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence -- 6. The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Instruments in the Chemical Revolution -- 3 Martinus van Marum: Demonstration, Persuasion, and the Development of Instruments -- 4 Onderdewijngaart Canzius and the Peter Principle -- 5 Georges Parrot and the Establishment of a Philosophical Cabinet and a Chemical Laboratory in Dorpat.
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5.1 Chemistry in a New University -- 5.2 Adam Wilhelm Hauch, Chemical Apparatus and the Chemical Revolution in Denmark -- Acknowledgements -- 7. The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science -- 1 Technological Displays: The Interaction Process and Publics as Experts -- 1.1 Talking Heads Versus Balloons, Paris, Autumn 1783 -- 1.2 A Flourishing Consumption Culture of Science and Techniques -- 1.3 Mapping Demonstrations and the "Emancipated Spectator" -- 2 The Ballooning Workshop -- 2.1 Preparing Flight: A Collective Enterprise -- 2.2 The Rise of the Balloon: An Urban Dramaturgy -- 3 Conclusion -- 8. The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760-1815 -- 1 A Matter of Instruments -- 2 Practical Spaces -- 3 The Chemist of Long Acre -- 4 Electrical Airs -- 9. "Both by Sea and Land": William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space -- 1 Whiston and Ditton's Projects -- 2 Longitude on Land -- 3 Conclusion -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: McOuat, Gordon Spaces of Enlightenment Science Boston : BRILL,c2022 ISBN 9789004501218
Language:
English
Keywords:
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