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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.
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.
Price: $147.00
Pages: 220
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy
Publication Date:
06 January 2022
ISBN: 9789004501218
Format: Hardcover
"This book would make an especially good addition to collections on the history of science and the Enlightenment period. Most essays are both interesting and readable, and the volume should be attractive to students.
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– A. C. Prendergast, University of South Alabama, in: CHOICE 60.1 (September 2022)
"As a whole this book is a very fine collection of essays, providing the reader with significant and original case studies on the changing role of spaces in the eighteenth century scientific and technical research. " – Marco Beretta, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, in: Nuncius 38 (2023), pp. 485-487.
– A. C. Prendergast, University of South Alabama, in: CHOICE 60.1 (September 2022)
"As a whole this book is a very fine collection of essays, providing the reader with significant and original case studies on the changing role of spaces in the eighteenth century scientific and technical research. " – Marco Beretta, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, in: Nuncius 38 (2023), pp. 485-487.
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).
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).