Making Space For Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern History)

In Recent Years There Has Been A Growing Recognition That A Mature Analysis Of Scientific And Technological Activity Requires An Understanding Of Its Spatial Contexts. Without These Contexts, Indeed, Scientific Practice As Such Is Scarcely Conceivable. Making Space For Science Brings Together Contributors With Diverse Interests In The History, Sociology And Cultural Studies Of Science And Technology Since The Renaissance. The Editors Aim To Provide A Series Of Studies, Drawn From The History Of Science And Engineering, From Sociology And Sociology And Science, From Literature And Science, And From Architecture And Design History, Which Examine The Spatial Foundations Of The Sciences From A Number Of Complementary Perspectives. Projection And The Ubiquitous Virtue Of Geometry In The Renaissance / Jim Bennett -- From The Alps To Egypt (and Back Again): Dolomieu, Scientific Voyaging, And The Construction Of The Field In Eighteenth-century Natural History / Alix Cooper -- 'i Do Know The Machinery Of The Universe': System And Individuality In Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka / Ian Higginson -- 'a Most Important Trespass': Lewis Gordon And The Glasgow Chair Of Civil Engineering And Mechanics, 1840-55 / Ben Marsden -- 'nowhere But In A Great Town': William Thomson's Spiral Of Classroom Credibility / Crosbie Smith -- Physics Laboratories And The Victorian Country House / Simon Schaffer -- Spatial Imagery In Nineteenth-century Representations Of Science: Faraday And Tyndall / Alice Jenkins -- 'but Indifferently Lodged ... ': Perception And Place In Building For Science In Victorian London / Sophie Forgan -- The Premisses: Spatial Issues In The Historical Construction Of Laboratory Credibility / Graeme Gooday -- Easy Transit: Crossing Boundaries Between Physics And Chemistry In Mid-nineteenth-century France / Mathhias Dörries -- Screening Science: Spatial Organization And Valuation At Jodrell Bank / Jon Agar -- Biotechnology's Private Parts (and Some Public Ones) / Thomas F. Gieryn -- 'nobody Can Force You When You Are Across The Ocean' -- Face To Face And E-mail Exchanges Between Theoretical Physicists / Martina Merz -- Scientific Knowledge, Power And Space / Alex Dolby. Edited By Crosbie Smith And Jon Agar, With The Assistance Of Gerald Schmidt. In Association With Centre For The History Of Science, Technology, And Medicine, University Of Manchester. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 338-361) And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction: Making Space for Science....Pages 1-23 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 Projection and the Ubiquitous Virtue of Geometry in the Renaissance....Pages 27-38 From the Alps to Egypt (and Back Again): Dolomieu, Scientific Voyaging, and the Construction of the Field in Eighteenth-Century Natural History....Pages 39-63 ‘I Do Know the Machinery of the Universe’: System and Individuality in Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka....Pages 64-83 Front Matter....Pages 85-85 ‘A Most Important Trespass’: Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 1840–55....Pages 87-117 ‘Nowhere But in a Great Town’: William Thomson’s Spiral of Classroom Credibility....Pages 118-146 Front Matter....Pages 147-147 Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House....Pages 149-180 Spatial Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Science: Faraday and Tyndall....Pages 181-191 Front Matter....Pages 193-193 ‘But Indifferently Lodged...’: Perception and Place in Building for Science in Victorian London....Pages 195-215 The Premisses of Premises: Spatial Issues in the Historical Construction of Laboratory Credibility....Pages 216-245 Easy Transit: Crossing Boundaries Between Physics and Chemistry in mid-Nineteenth Century France....Pages 246-262 Front Matter....Pages 263-263 Screening Science: Spatial Organization and Valuation at Jodrell Bank....Pages 265-280 Biotechnology’s Private Parts (and Some Public Ones)....Pages 281-312 ‘Nobody Can Force You When You Are Across the Ocean’ — Face to Face and E-Mail Exchanges Between Theoretical Physicists....Pages 313-329 Afterword: Scientific Knowledge, Power and Space....Pages 330-337 Back Matter....Pages 338-374 Presents 13 revised papers from a March 1994 conference held by the British Society for the History of Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology, and cultural study of science and technology since the Renaissance examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from complementary perspectives. Topics include system and individuality in Poe's Eureka , physics laboratories and the Victorian country house, crossing boundaries between physics and chemistry in 19th-century France, and issues in modern research and communication. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. This book brings together contributors with diverse interests to examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.