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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.
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2010.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2010] |
Series: | Knowledge and space ;
v. 3. |
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1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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Online Access: | SpringerLink - Click here for access |
Contents:
- Interdisciplinary geographies of science / Heike Jöns, David N. Livingstone, and Peter Meusburger
- Landscapes of knowledge / David N. Livingstone
- Global knowledge? / Nico Stehr
- A geohistorical study of "the rise of modern science" : mapping scientific practice through urban networks, 1500-1900 / Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler, and David M. Evans
- From mediocrity and existential crisis to scientific excellence : Heidelberg University between 1803 and 1932 / Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch
- Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centers of knowledge, 1885-1954 / Heike Jöns
- Big sciences, open networks, and global collecting in early museums / Dominik Collet
- Is the atrium more important than the lab? : designer buildings for new cultures of creativity / Albena Yaneva
- Outer space of science : a video ethnography of reagency in Ghana / Wesley M. Shrum, Ricardo B. Duque, and Marcus Antonius Ynalvez
- The making of geographies of knowledge at world's fairs : Morocco at Expo 2000 in Hanover / Alexa Färber
- 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 / Charles W.J. Withers
- Testing times : experimental counter-conduct in interwar Germany / Alexander Vasudevan
- NGOs, the science-lay dichotomy, and hybrid spaces of environmental knowledge / Sally Eden
- Regulatory science and risk assessment in Indian country : taking tribal publics into account / Ryan Holifield.