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OverviewWhere 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gordon McOuat , Larry StewartPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 8 Weight: 0.556kg ISBN: 9789004501218ISBN 10: 9004501215 Pages: 220 Publication Date: 06 January 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviewsAuthor Information"Gordon McOuat is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. His works include ""The Origins of Natural Kinds"" (2009), ""J.B.S. Haldane’s Passage to India: reconfiguring science"" (2017), and several co-edited volumes, including Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Taylor and Francis, 2017). Larry Stewart is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Associated Scholar at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His numerous articles and books on Early Modern science include Rise of Public Science (CUP 1992), Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (with Margaret Jacob, Harvard, 2004), and co-edited volumes including The Romance of Science (Springer, 2017), Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), and Uses of Humans in Experiment (Brill, 2016)." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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