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Book SynopsisWhere did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the “geographies of knowledge”, it examines the relationship between “space” and “place”, institutions, “objects”, and “ideas”, showing the ways in which the location of science really matters. Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart 2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley’s ‘True Academick Life’ Rob Iliffe 3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment Europe Margaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza 4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century London Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin 5 ‘My Collection in All Its Branches’: The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific Correspondence Alice Marples 6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic Wars Trevor H. Levere 7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of Science Marie Thébaud-Sorger 8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760–1815 Larry Stewart 9 “Both by Sea and Land”: William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of Space Simon Werret Index
