Geographies of Science
This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians of science. The aut...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Series: | Knowledge and Space, Klaus Tschira Symposia,
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8611-2 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Interdisciplinary geographies of science
- Part I: Comparative approaches to scientific knowledge. 1: Landscapes of knowledge. 2: Global knowledge
- Part II Academic mobility and scientific centres. 3: A geohistorical study of <U+0018>The rise of modern science<U+0019>: Mapping scientific practice through urban networks, 1500-1900. 4: Heidelberg University between 1803 and 1932: From mediocrity to excellence. 5: Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centres of knowledge, 1885-1954
- Part III Designing spaces for science. 6: Big sciences, open networks, and global collecting in early museums. 7: Is the atrium more important than the lab? Designer buildings for new cultures of creativity. 8: "New smartness" and the making of geographies of knowledge at world fairs: Morocco at Expo 2000 in Hanover. 9: Outer space of science: A video ethnography of reagency in Ghana
- Part IV: Science and the public. 10: Geographies of science and public understanding? Exploring the reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c.1845-1939. 11: Testing times: Experimental counter-conduct in interwar Germany. 12: NGOs, the science-lay dichotomy and hybrid spaces of environmental knowledge. 13: Regulatory science and risk assessment in Indian Country: Taking tribal publics into account.