Book ID: CBB893914855

Geographies of Knowledge: Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century (2020)

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Mayhew, Robert (Author)
Withers, Charles W. J. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2020
Physical Details: 288
Language: English

Over the past twenty years, scholars have increasingly questioned not just historical presumptions about the putative rise of modern science during the long nineteenth century but also the geographical contexts for and variability of science during the era. In Geographies of Knowledge, an internationally distinguished array of historians and geographers examine the spatialization of science in the period, tracing the ways in which scale and space are crucial to understanding the production, dissemination, and reception of scientific knowledge in the nineteenth century.Engaging with and extending the influential work of David Livingstone and others on science's spatial dimensions, the book touches on themes of empire, gender, religion, Darwinism, and much more. In exploring the practice of science across four continents, these essays illuminate the importance of geographical perspectives to the study of science and knowledge, and how these ideas made and contested locally could travel the globe.Dealing with everything from the local spaces of the Surrey countryside to the global negotiations that proposed a single prime meridian, from imperial knowledge creation and exploration in Burma, India, and Africa to studies of metropolitan scientific-cum-theological tussles in Belfast and in Confederate America, Geographies of Knowledge outlines an interdisciplinary agenda for the study of science as geographically situated sets of practices in the era of its modern disciplinary construction. More than that, it outlines new possibilities for all those interested in knowledge's spatial characteristics in other periods. Contributors: John A. Agnew, Vinita Damodaran, Diarmid A. Finnegan, Nuala C. Johnson, Dane Kennedy, Robert J. Mayhew, Mark Noll, Ronald L. Numbers, Nicolaas Rupke, Yvonne Sherratt, Charles W. J. Withers

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Authors & Contributors
Nina Klimburg-Witjes
James Justus
Javier Goicolea Zala
Samantha Wakil
Donald J. Fraser
Mascha Gugganig
Concepts
Development of technology; change in technology
Development of science; change in science
Science and society
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
Geographical studies of science
Science and technology, relationships
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Modern
20th century, early
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
China
Great Britain
Manchester (England)
United States
Spain
Australia
Institutions
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
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