Geographies of nineteenth-century science

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In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity.

Chapters from a distinguished range. In Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, David N. Livingstone and Charles W. Withers gather Geographies of nineteenth-century science book that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and rs from a distinguished range Geographies of nineteenth-century science book contributors explore the places of creation, the paths of knowledge transmission and 4/5(1).

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As a resource for studying this manifold process, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science has no peer."--James Moore, coauthor of Darwin's Sacred Cause "Victorian Studies" "A rich collection of essays by some of the leading historians and historical geographers in the field, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science explores the diverse spatial contexts and geographical mobility of scientific knowledge during the nineteenth century.

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science - Chicago Scholarship This book gathers essays that examine science in this significant period and show how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority, and identity.

"A rich collection of essays by some of the leading historians and historical geographers in the field, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science explores the diverse spatial contexts and geographical mobility of scientific knowledge during the nineteenth s: 1.

Among the most influential ideas of the 19th century were those of Charles Darwin (alongside the independent researches of Alfred Russel Wallace), who in published the book The Origin of Species, which introduced the idea of evolution by natural selection. Geography - Geography - Geography and education: the 19th-century creation of an academic discipline: Geography’s original characteristics were formulated by a small number of 19th-century French and German scholars, who strongly influenced subsequent developments in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Sincewhile retaining its focus on people, places, and environments, the. The opening chapter of this book, “Science at the Beginning of this Century,” enables us to realise how immense the gain has been. The Story of Nineteenth Century Science. By Henry Smith. studies of the nature of science’s movement across space.

In this regard, the time is right to reinforce interdisciplinary enquiry and establish new research frontiers by exploring the significance of geographical thinking to the making, movement and reception of science, here in the nineteenth century.

Conference themes. From the ancient Greek physician Agamede to physicist and chemist Marie Curie, in descriptions ranging from a single paragraph to several pages, Women in Science profiles women who as patronesses, translators, popularizers, collectors, illustrators, inventors, and active researchers, made significant contributions to science before It adds a new dimension to the history of science by.

Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature The nineteenth century was a period of many advances in the field of science and medicine. Society placed a great deal of emphasis on the empirical. Fishing the Great Lakes is a sweeping history of the destruction of the once-abundant fisheries of the great "inland seas" that lie between the United States and Canada.

Though lake trout, whitefish, freshwater herring, and sturgeon were still teeming as late asMargaret Bogue documents here how overfishing, pollution, political squabbling, poor public policies, and commercial.

"[Unthinking Social Science] presents a clear thesis: Wallerstein uses a world-historical argument tying the emergence of 'modern' ideologies and social sciences to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century world-system dynamics, debunks them, and calls for their reformulation." David A.

Smith, Contemporary Sociology. Best 19th Century Science Fiction Score A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science Edited by Michael Friedman, Michael Friedman Michael Friedman is Frederick P.

Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities at Stanford University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site.

Google Scholar. Alfred Nordmann. The Lancet MEDICINE: ITS SHARE IN THE GROWTH OF NINETEENTH CENTURY SCIENCE. IT is not easy to realise the full extent of the changes that have been effected in the knowledge of the nature of diseases and of their more rational treatment during the sixty.

Bernard Lightman is professor of humanities at York University and president of the History of Science Society.

Among his most recent publications are the edited collections Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist, A Companion to the History of Science, and Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America.

Science fiction - Science fiction - The 19th and early 20th centuries: In Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley took the next major step in the evolution of science fiction when she published Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. Champions of Shelley as the “mother of science fiction” emphasize her innovative fictional scheme.

Abandoning the occult folderol of the conventional Gothic novel. The nineteenth-century emphasis on harmony between science and religion was in some ways a response to the Enlightenment.

The most radical, anti-clerical phases of the intellectual movement to expand the influence of human reason never gained much of a foothold in America.

Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books. My library. Simon Naylor, Log Books and the Law of Storms: Maritime Meteorology and the British Admiralty in the Nineteenth Century, Isis, /,4.

In this context, the 'spatial turn' evident in the history of science has been paralleled by work in geography which has paid attention to science's discovery, the sites of its reception and justification and studies of the nature of science's movement across space.

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