Book ID: CBB257812947

Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin (2019)

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O'Sullivan, Tanya (Author)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 242 pp.
Language: English

Dublin at the turn of the twentieth century was both the second city of the British Empire and the soon-to-be capital of an emerging nation, presenting a unique space in which to examine the past relationship between science and the city. Drawing on both geography and biography, Geographies of City Science underscores the crucial role urban spaces played in the production of scientific knowledge. Each chapter explores the lives of two practitioners from one of the main religious and political traditions in Dublin (either Protestant and Unionist or Catholic and Nationalist). As Tanya O’Sullivan argues, any variation in their engagement with science had far less to do with their affiliations than with their “life spaces”—domains where human agency and social structures collide. Focusing on nineteenth-century debates on the origins of the universe as well as the origins of form, humans, and language, O’Sullivan explores the numerous ways in which scientific meaning relating to origin theories was established and mobilized in the city. By foregrounding Dublin, her book complements more recent attempts to enrich the historiography of metropolitan science by examining its provenance in less well-known urban centers.

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Review Oliver Hochadel (2021) Review of "Geographies of City Science: Urban Life and Origin Debates in Late Victorian Dublin". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 417-418). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dümpelmann, Sonja
Wilson, Matthew
Andraschke, Udo
James, Kirsten
Guy, Stéphane
Sherra Murphy
Concepts
Science and society
Urban history
Urban planning
Science and culture
Science and religion
Cities and towns
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Modern
21st century
Places
Dublin (Ireland)
Lisbon (Portugal)
London (England)
United States
Berlin (Germany)
Vienna (Austria)
Institutions
Dublin Natural History Museum
Royal Dublin Society
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