Making Space for Science: Territorial Themes in the Shaping of Knowledge

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Making Space for Science....Pages 1-23
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Projection and the Ubiquitous Virtue of Geometry in the Renaissance....Pages 27-38
From the Alps to Egypt (and Back Again): Dolomieu, Scientific Voyaging, and the Construction of the Field in Eighteenth-Century Natural History....Pages 39-63
‘I Do Know the Machinery of the Universe’: System and Individuality in Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka....Pages 64-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
‘A Most Important Trespass’: Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 1840–55....Pages 87-117
‘Nowhere But in a Great Town’: William Thomson’s Spiral of Classroom Credibility....Pages 118-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House....Pages 149-180
Spatial Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Science: Faraday and Tyndall....Pages 181-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
‘But Indifferently Lodged…’: Perception and Place in Building for Science in Victorian London....Pages 195-215
The Premisses of Premises: Spatial Issues in the Historical Construction of Laboratory Credibility....Pages 216-245
Easy Transit: Crossing Boundaries Between Physics and Chemistry in mid-Nineteenth Century France....Pages 246-262
Front Matter....Pages 263-263
Screening Science: Spatial Organization and Valuation at Jodrell Bank....Pages 265-280
Biotechnology’s Private Parts (and Some Public Ones)....Pages 281-312
‘Nobody Can Force You When You Are Across the Ocean’ — Face to Face and E-Mail Exchanges Between Theoretical Physicists....Pages 313-329
Afterword: Scientific Knowledge, Power and Space....Pages 330-337
Back Matter....Pages 338-374