Spaces of Enlightenment Science (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy)

McOuat, Gordon (EDT)/ Stewart, Larry (EDT)

Brill（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 220 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004501218

Full Description

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 the relationship between "space" and "place", institutions, "objects", and "ideas", showing the ways in which the location of science really matters.

Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

 Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart

2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley's 'True Academick Life'

 Rob Iliffe

3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe

 Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza

4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London

 Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin

5 'My Collection in All Its Branches': The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence

 Alice Marples

6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic Wars

 Trevor H. Levere

7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science

 Marie Thébaud-Sorger

8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760-1815

 Larry Stewart

9 "Both by Sea and Land": William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space

 Simon Werret

Index