Spaces of Enlightenment Science: 8 (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy, 8) - Hardcover

Book 8 of 9: Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy

Gordon McOuat; Larry Stewart

 
9789004501218: Spaces of Enlightenment Science: 8 (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy, 8)

Synopsis

Spaces of Enlightenment Science explores the places, spaces, and exchanges where science of the Early Modern period got done, bringing together leading historians of science to examine the geographies of knowledge in the Enlightenment period.

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About the Author

Gordon McOuat is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. His works include "The Origins of Natural Kinds" (2009), "J.B.S. Haldane’s Passage to India: reconfiguring science" (2017), and several co-edited volumes, including Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Taylor and Francis, 2017). Larry Stewart is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Associated Scholar at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His numerous articles and books on Early Modern science include Rise of Public Science (CUP 1992), Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (with Margaret Jacob, Harvard, 2004), and co-edited volumes including The Romance of Science (Springer, 2017), Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), and Uses of Humans in Experiment (Brill, 2016).

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