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Geographies of Knowledge : Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century /
"This collection of essays addresses the role of space in the construction and dissemination of scientific ideas in the nineteenth century. The essays pay particular attention to the role of scale, ranging from the local scale of the Surrey countryside to the global spatiality of the prime meri...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Thinking geographically about science in the nineteenth century / Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers
- Locating Malthus's essay : localism and the construction of social science, 1798-1826 / Robert J. Mayhew and Yvonne Sherratt
- Revisiting Belfast : Tyndall, science, and the plurality of place / Diarmid A. Finnegan
- Henry Hotze in place : religion, science, confederate propaganda, and race / Mark Noll
- "Made in America" : the politics of place in debates over science and religion / Ronald L. Numbers
- Putting the structuralist theory of evolution in its place / Nicolaas Rupke
- Science, sites, and situated practice : debating the prime meridian in the International Geographical Congress, 1871-1904 / Charles W. J. Withers
- Illustrating nature : exploration, natural history, and the travels of Charlotte WheelerCuffe in Burma / Nuala C. Johnson
- Climate, environment, and the colonial experience / Vinita Damodaran
- Lost in place : two expeditions gone awry in Africa / Dane Kennedy.