Geographies of Knowledge Science, Scale, and Spatiality in the Nineteenth Century /
edited by Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W.J. Withers.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2020. Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000.
- 1 online resource (pages cm.).
- Medicine, science, and religion in historical context .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Thinking geographically about science in the nineteenth century / Locating Malthus's essay : localism and the construction of social science, 1798-1826 / Revisiting Belfast : Tyndall, science, and the plurality of place / Henry Hotze in place : religion, science, confederate propaganda, and race / "Made in America" : the politics of place in debates over science and religion / Putting the structuralist theory of evolution in its place / Science, sites, and situated practice : debating the prime meridian in the International Geographical Congress, 1871-1904 / Illustrating nature : exploration, natural history, and the travels of Charlotte WheelerCuffe in Burma / Climate, environment, and the colonial experience / Lost in place : two expeditions gone awry in Africa / Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers -- Robert J. Mayhew and Yvonne Sherratt -- Diarmid A. Finnegan -- Mark Noll -- Ronald L. Numbers -- Nicolaas Rupke -- Charles W. J. Withers -- Nuala C. Johnson -- Vinita Damodaran -- Dane Kennedy.
"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 meridian. The collection opens new avenues for studying the ways that science was a geographically situated set of practices in the nineteenth century"--