Spaces of Enlightenment Science / / Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.
"Where did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the "geographies of knowledge", it examines...
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| Superior document: | Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy Series ; Volume 8 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Knowledge insight series ;
Volume 8. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Gordon McOuat and Larry Stew art
- Escape from Capnopolis : William Stukeley's 'True academick life' / Rob Iliffe
- Something is in the air : experimental spaces, analogical reasoning, and the problem of putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe / Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza
- Instrument makers, shops, and expertise in eighteenth-century London / Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
- 'My collection in all its branches' : the imagined space of early modern scientific correspondence / Alice Marples
- The dissemination of chemical theory and chemical instruments through cabinets, laboratories, lecture theatres and museums during the Napoleonic Wars / Trevor H. Levere
- The public space of knowledge and the public sphere of science / Marie Thébaud-Sorger
- The space between : James Dinwiddie and the transit of science, 1760-1815 / Larry Stewart
- "Both by sea and land" : William Whiston, longitude, and the measurement of space / Simon Werrett.