Spaces of Enlightenment science
Spaces of Enlightenment Science explores the places, spaces, and exchanges where science of the Early Modern period got done, bringing together leading historians of science to examine the geographies of knowledge in the Enlightenment period.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boston : Brill,
2022
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy
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| Schlagworte: | Science Science rooms and equipment Laboratories Knowledge, Sociology of Enlightenment Space Place (Philosophy) Science-Europe-History-17th century Science-Europe-History-18th century Science rooms and equipment-Europe-History |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Spaces of Enlightenment Science explores the places, spaces, and exchanges where science of the Early Modern period got done, bringing together leading historians of science to examine the geographies of knowledge in the Enlightenment period. Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 1 The Importance of Place -- 2 Ruminating About Place, Space, and "Universal" Science -- 3 Local Origins: Turning Around a Needham Question -- 4 Multiple Places -- 5 Geographies of Knowledge: Place vs. Space and Places of Accumulation and Control -- 2. Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley's 'True Academick Life' -- 1 An Inclination to Retirement -- 2 The Spoils of the Dead -- 3 The Perils of Fumopolis -- 4 Grantham: Useful Pleasure and the Sylva Academi -- 5 Living and Dying in Stamford -- 6 London: Sociable Solitude -- 3. Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Army Medicine and John Pringle's Experimental Program -- 3 Mme Thiroux d'Arconville's Essay on Putrefaction -- 4 Problems of Application: Antiseptics for Anatomical Preparations -- 5 From Mme Thiroux d'Arconville to David Macbride: Fixing Antiseptics -- 6 Animating Putrefaction at the Dijon Academy -- 7 The Economy of Nature: Likening the Living to the Dead -- 4. Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London -- 1 Organisation of Space -- 2 Workshops and Working Practices -- 3 The Instrument Maker's Shop and Display Strategies -- 4 Identifying and Asserting Expertise and Authorship -- 5 Conclusion -- 5. 'My Collection in All Its Branches': The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence -- 6. The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Instruments in the Chemical Revolution -- 3 Martinus van Marum: Demonstration, Persuasion, and the Development of Instruments -- 4 Onderdewijngaart Canzius and the Peter Principle -- 5 Georges Parrot and the Establishment of a Philosophical Cabinet and a Chemical Laboratory in Dorpat. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004501225 9004501223 9789004501218 9004501215 |