UID:
almahu_9949449762902882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 263 pages) :
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
0203304586
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9780203304587
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1280023317
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9781280023316
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1135288216
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9781135288211
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9786610023318
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661002331X
Series Statement:
Studies in the history of science, technology and medicine
Content:
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places. The spaces we inhabit and assemblages we work with are not as homogenous and coherent as our modernist perspectives have led us to believe - rather they are complex and hetero.
Note:
Ch. 1. 'On with the motley' : the contingent assemblage of knowledge spaces -- ch. 2. Talk, templates and tradition : How the masons built Chartres Cathedral without plans -- ch. 3. Tricksters and cartographers : maps, science and the state in the making of a modern scientific knowledge space -- ch. 4. Pacific navigation : an alternative scientific tradition -- ch. 5. Making malaria curable : extending a knowledge space to create a vaccine -- ch. 6. Messiness and order in turbulence research.
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English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Turnbull, David, 1943- Masons, tricksters and cartographers. London ; New York : Routledge, ©2000 ISBN 9057024993
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9058230015
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
DOI:
10.4324/9780203304587
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203304587
