UID:
edoccha_9958339282002883
Format:
1 online resource (269 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-135-28820-8
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1-280-02331-7
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0-203-30458-6
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1-135-28821-6
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90-5823-001-5
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9786610023318
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:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction From rationality to messiness: Rethinking technoscientific knowledge; Chapter 1 'On with the motley': The contingent assemblage of knowledge spaces; Chapter 2 Talk, templates and tradition: How the masons built Chartres Cathedral without plans; Chapter 3 Tricksters and cartographers: Maps, science and the state in the making of a modern scientific knowledge space; Chapter 4 Pacific navigation: An alternative scientific tradition
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Chapter 5 Making malaria curable: Extending a knowledge space to create a vaccine Chapter 6 Messiness and order in turbulence research; Conclusion Rationality, relativism and the politics of knowledge; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-35333-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-5702-499-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203304587
