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Title Geographies of science / Peter Meusburger, David N. Livingstone, Heike Jöns, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Knowledge and space ; v. 3
Knowledge and space ; v. 3.
Contents Interdisciplinary geographies of science / Heike Jöns, David N. Livingstone, and Peter Meusburger -- Landscapes of knowledge / David N. Livingstone -- Global knowledge? / Nico Stehr -- A geohistorical study of "the rise of modern science" : mapping scientific practice through urban networks, 1500-1900 / Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler, and David M. Evans -- From mediocrity and existential crisis to scientific excellence : Heidelberg University between 1803 and 1932 / Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch -- Academic travel from Cambridge University and the formation of centers of knowledge, 1885-1954 / Heike Jöns -- Big sciences, open networks, and global collecting in early museums / Dominik Collet -- Is the atrium more important than the lab? : designer buildings for new cultures of creativity / Albena Yaneva -- Outer space of science : a video ethnography of reagency in Ghana / Wesley M. Shrum, Ricardo B. Duque, and Marcus Antonius Ynalvez -- The making of geographies of knowledge at world's fairs : Morocco at Expo 2000 in Hanover / Alexa Färber -- Geographies of science and public understanding? : exploring the reception of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Britain and in Ireland, c. 1845-1939 / Charles W.J. Withers -- Testing times : experimental counter-conduct in interwar Germany / Alexander Vasudevan -- NGOs, the science-lay dichotomy, and hybrid spaces of environmental knowledge / Sally Eden -- Regulatory science and risk assessment in Indian country : taking tribal publics into account / Ryan Holifield
Summary This collection of essays aims to further the understanding of historical and contemporary geographies of science. It offers a fresh perspective on comparative approaches to scientific knowledge and practice as pursued by geographers, sociologists, anthropologists and historians of science
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Science -- Social aspects -- History
Science -- Study and teaching -- History
Architecture and science.
Geography -- Social aspects
Science and civilization.
Science museums -- History
Science -- Exhibitions.
SCIENCE -- Essays.
SCIENCE -- Nanoscience.
SCIENCE -- Reference.
Architecture and science
Geography -- Social aspects
Science
Science and civilization
Science museums
Science -- Social aspects
Science -- Study and teaching
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
Wissenschaftstransfer
Wissenschaftliche Einrichtung
Wissenschaftssoziologie
Wissenschaft
Wetenschapsbeoefening.
Ruimtelijke aspecten.
Wetenschapsmusea.
Genre/Form exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Form Electronic book
Author Meusburger, Peter
Livingstone, David N., 1953-
Jöns, Heike, 1973-
Klaus Tschira Stiftung.
LC no. 2010922067
ISBN 9789048186112
9048186110