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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Klaus Tschira Stiftung
Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter, Livingstone, David N., 1953-, Jöns, Heike, 1973-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2010]
Series:Knowledge and space ; v. 3.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Subjects:
Science -- Social aspects -- History.
Science -- Study and teaching -- History.
Architecture and science.
Geography -- Social aspects.
Science and civilization.
Science museums -- History.
Science -- Exhibitions.
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.

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