Dierig, Sven (Author)
Lachmund, Jens (Author)
Mendelsohn, J. Andrew (Author)
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 18
Pages: 1--19
Edition Details: Introduction to the volume on the theme of “Science and the City”
Language: English
This essay calls for an urban history of science that unites the history of science and urban history. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it emphasizes the active role cities play in shaping both scientific practice and scientific knowledge. Furthermore, the essay argues that cities themselves have to be viewed - at least partially - as mediated by science. Four interconnections of science and the city are discussed: the relationship between scientific expertise and urban politics, science's role in the cultural representation of the city, the embedment of scientific activity in the social and material infrastructure of the city, and the interaction between science and urban everyday life.
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Article Weiner, Dora B.; Sauter, Michael (2003) The City of Paris and the Rise of Clinical Medicine. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 23).
Article Phillips, Allison Denise (2003) Friends of Nature: Urban Sociability and Regional Natural History in Dresden, 1800-1850. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 43).
Article Fan, Fa-ti (2003) Science in a Chinese Entrepôt: British Naturalists and Their Chinese Associates in Old Canton. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 60).
Article Aubin, David (2003) The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomers' Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 79).
Article Levitt, Theresa (2003) Organizing Sight, Seeing Organization: The Diverging Optical Possibilities of City and Country. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 101).
Article Dierig, Sven (2003) Engines for Experiment: Laboratory Revolution and Industrial Labor in the Nineteenth-Century City. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 116).
Article Picon, Antoine (2003) Nineteenth-Century Urban Cartography and the Scientific Ideal: The Case of Paris. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 135).
Article Mendelsohn, J. Andrew (2003) The Microscopist of Modern Life. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 150).
Article Bijsterveld, Karin (2003) “The City of Din”: Decibels, Noise, and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 173).
Article Pols, Hans (2003) Anomie in the Metropolis: The City in American Sociology and Psychiatry. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 194).
Article Topalov, Christian (2003) “Traditional Working-Class Neighborhoods”: An Inquiry into the Emergence of a Sociological Model in the 1950s and 1960s. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 212).
Article Lachmund, Jens (2003) Exploring the City of Rubble: Botanical Fieldwork in Bombed Cities in Germany after World War II. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 234).
Article Wakeman, Rosemary (2003) Dreaming the New Atlantis: Science and the Planning of Technopolis, 1955-1985. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 255).
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