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

Presents 13 revised papers from a March 1994 conference held by the British Society for the History of Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology, and cultural study of science and technology since the Renaissance examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from complementary perspectives. Topics include system and individuality in Poe’s Eureka , physics laboratories and the Victorian country house, crossing boundaries between physics and chemistry in 19th-century France, and issues in modern research and communication. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.