Making space for science : territorial themes in the shaping of knowledge

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List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Making Space for Science J.Agar & C.Smith - PART 1: OF THE TERRITORY - Projection and the Ubiquitous Virtue of Geometry in the Renaissance J.Bennett - From the Alps to Egypt (and Back Again): Dolomieu, Scientific Voyaging, and the Construction of the Field in Eighteenth-Century Natural History A.Cooper - 'I Do Know the Machinery of the Universe': System and Individuality in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka I.Higginson - PART 2: OF WORKING CLASSES - 'A Most Important Trespass': Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics 1840-1855 B.Marsden - 'Nowhere but in a Great Town': William Thomson's Spiral of Class-room Credibility C.Smith - PART 3: OF PASTORAL PRIVILEGES - Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House S.Schaffer - Spatial Imagery in Nineteenth-century Representations of Science: Faraday and Tyndall A.Jenkins - PART 4: OF METROPOLITAN SPACES - 'But Indifferently Lodged...': Perception and Place in Building for Science in Victorian London S.Forgan - The Premisses of Premises: Spatial Issues in the Historical Construction of Laboratory Credibility G.Gooday - East Transit. Crossing the Border between Physics and Chemistry in Mid-nineteenth Century France M.Dorries PART 5: OF RESEARCH SITES - Screening Science: Spatial Organization and Valuation at Jodrell Bank J.Agar - Biotechnology's Private Parts (and some Public Ones) T.F.Gieryn - 'Nobody can Force you when you are across the Ocean': Face to Face and E-mail Exchanges Between Theoretical Physicists M.Merz - Afterword: Scientific Knowledge, Power and Space A.Dolby - Bibliography - Index

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