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Book SynopsisLocations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts brings together scholars who shed light on the ways locations gave shape to scientific knowledge practices in the Dutch Republic and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This interdisciplinary volume uses four hundred years of Dutch history as a laboratory to investigate spatialized understandings of the history of knowledge. By conceptualizing locations of knowing as time-specific configurations of actors, artefacts, and activities, contributors to this volume not only examine cities as specific kind of locations, but also analyze the regionally and globally networked and transformative character of locations. Many of the locations which are studied in this volume are still visible until the present day. Contributors are Azadeh Achbari, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Alette Fleischer, Floor Haalboom, Marijn Hollestelle, Dirk van Miert, Ilja Nieuwland, Abel Streefland, Andreas Weber, Martin Weiss, Gerhard Wiesenfeldt, and Huib Zuidervaart.
Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 The Netherlands as a Laboratory of Knowing: Introduction to Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis and Andreas Weber Part 1: Cities 2 Science in the Theatre of Towns Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis 3 The ‘Duytsche Mathematique’ and Leiden Family Networks, 1600–1620 Gerhard Wiesenfeldt 4 The Middelburg Theatrum Anatomicum: A Location of Knowledge and Culture in an Early Urban Context Huib J. Zuidervaart Part 2: Connections 5 Breyne’s Botany: (Re-)locating Nature and Knowledge in Danzig (circa 1660–1730) Alette Fleischer 6 An Amphibious Science: Where Storms Took Shape Azadeh Achbari 7 Science to Bring the Nation Together: The Formation of Nomadic Congresses in the Netherlands and Flanders Ilja Nieuwland 8 Between Openness and Classification: Early Dutch Ultracentrifuge Development in International Context Abel Streefland Part 3: Transformations 9 The Disputation Hall in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: An Urban Location of Knowledge Dirk Van Miert 10 The Lorentz Transformation of a Museum Martin P.M. Weiss 11 Scientists in Cowsheds: Disputes Over Hygienic Milk Production in the Netherlands, 1918–1928 Floor Haalboom 12 Blending Research: Linking Dutch Industrial and Academic Polymer Laboratories, 1940–1980 Marijn J. Hollestelle Index
