Article ID: CBB084065380

Verticalities in Oral Histories of Science (2020)

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This paper is concerned with the way in which scientists speak—in extended life-story interviews recorded recently—about the role of verticality (understood here as an orientation in space: up/down rather than across) in past scientific work. In particular, I explore several episodes of scientific work in which (the scientists involved tell us) verticality emerged unexpectedly as an important aspect of the work. I argue that these stories tell us about previously neglected features of the geography of science as well as about the various influences on scientists' written and spoken accounts. I show that attention to stories of fieldwork featuring different aspects of verticality—vertical distance, rate of fall, and position under—sheds new light on the doing of science and its narration after the event, in such different communications as scientific papers and life-story recordings.

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Article Wilko Graf von Hardenberg; Martin Mahony (2020) Introduction—up, down, Round and Round: Verticalities in the History of Science. Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (pp. 595-611). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tansey, E. M.
Weimin, Xiong
Murphy, Hugh
Wilson, F. J. H.
Decker, M O
Castro, Carlo Di
Concepts
Oral history
Interviews
Historical method
Historiography
History of science, as a discipline
Biographies
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
China
Great Britain
United States
São Paulo (Brazil)
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cambridge University
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