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Masons, tricksters and cartographers : comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indigenous knowledge /
In an eclectic and highly original study, Turnbull brings together traditions as diverse as cathedral building, Micronesian navigation, cartography and turbulence research. He argues that all our differing ways of producing knowledge - including science - are messy, spatial and local. Every culture...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. 1. 'On with the motley' : the contingent assemblage of knowledge spaces
- ch. 2. Talk, templates and tradition : How the masons built Chartres Cathedral without plans
- ch. 3. Tricksters and cartographers : maps, science and the state in the making of a modern scientific knowledge space
- ch. 4. Pacific navigation : an alternative scientific tradition
- ch. 5. Making malaria curable : extending a knowledge space to create a vaccine
- ch. 6. Messiness and order in turbulence research.