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Title:

Geographies of nineteenth-century science / edited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers.

Publisher:

The University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 526 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Science--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Livingstone, David N., 1953-
Withers, Charles W. J.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Thinking geographically about nineteenth-century science / Charles W. J. Withers and David N. Livingstone -- Sites and scales -- Refashioning the spaces of London science: Elite epistemes in the nineteenth century / Bernard Lightman -- The status of museums: Authority, identity, and material culture / Samuel J. M. M. Alberti -- Cultivating genetics in the country: Whittingehame Lodge, Cambridge / Donald L. Opitz -- Scale and the geographies of civic science: Practice and experience in the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c. 1845-1900 / Charles W. J. Withers -- Islanded: natural history in the British colonization of Ceylon / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Practices and performances -- Placing science in an age of oratory: Spaces of scientific speech in mid-victorian Edinburgh / Diarmid A. Finnegan -- Politics, culture, and human origins: Geographies of reading and reputation in nineteenth-century science / David N. Livingstone -- Electricity and the sociable circulation of fear and fearlessness / Graeme Gooday -- "The 'crinoline' of our steam engineers": Reinventing the marine compound engine, 1850-1885 / Crosbie Smith -- Expeditionary science: Conflicts of method in mid-nineteenth-century geographical discovery / Lawrence Dritsas -- Guides and audiences -- Pressed into service: Specimens, space, and seeing in botanical practice / Anne Secord -- Science, print, and crossing borders: Importing French science books into Britain, 1789-1815 / Jonathan R. Topham -- Geological mapping and the geographies of proprietorship in nineteenth-century Cornwall / Simon Naylor -- Natural history and the Victorian tourist: from landscapes to rock-pools / Aileen Fyfe -- Place and museum space: The Smithsonian Institution, national identity, and the American west, 1846-1896 / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- Afterword: Putting the geography of science in its place / Nicolaas Rupke.

ISBN:

0226487261 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226487267 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)664840194

LCCN:

2010039367

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)