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008 100914s2011 ilua b 001 0 eng c
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050 00 $aQ127.G4$bG46 2011
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245 00 $aGeographies of nineteenth-century science /$cedited by David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$cc2011.
300 $ax, 526 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThinking geographically about nineteenth-century science / Charles W. J. Withers and David N. Livingstone -- Sites and scales -- Refashioning the spaces of London science: Elite epistemes in the nineteenth century / Bernard Lightman -- The status of museums: Authority, identity, and material culture / Samuel J. M. M. Alberti -- Cultivating genetics in the country: Whittingehame Lodge, Cambridge / Donald L. Opitz -- Scale and the geographies of civic science: Practice and experience in the meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c. 1845-1900 / Charles W. J. Withers -- Islanded: natural history in the British colonization of Ceylon / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Practices and performances -- Placing science in an age of oratory: Spaces of scientific speech in mid-victorian Edinburgh / Diarmid A. Finnegan -- Politics, culture, and human origins: Geographies of reading and reputation in nineteenth-century science / David N. Livingstone -- Electricity and the sociable circulation of fear and fearlessness / Graeme Gooday -- "The 'crinoline' of our steam engineers": Reinventing the marine compound engine, 1850-1885 / Crosbie Smith -- Expeditionary science: Conflicts of method in mid-nineteenth-century geographical discovery / Lawrence Dritsas -- Guides and audiences -- Pressed into service: Specimens, space, and seeing in botanical practice / Anne Secord -- Science, print, and crossing borders: Importing French science books into Britain, 1789-1815 / Jonathan R. Topham -- Geological mapping and the geographies of proprietorship in nineteenth-century Cornwall / Simon Naylor -- Natural history and the Victorian tourist: from landscapes to rock-pools / Aileen Fyfe -- Place and museum space: The Smithsonian Institution, national identity, and the American west, 1846-1896 / Sally Gregory Kohlstedt -- Afterword: Putting the geography of science in its place / Nicolaas Rupke.
650 0 $aScience$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aLivingstone, David N.,$d1953-
700 1 $aWithers, Charles W. J.