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008			210118s2020 mduab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2019047623
020			_a9781421438542 (hbk.)
020			_a1421438542 (hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1149161905
050			_aQ125 _b.G46 2020
245	0	0	_aGeographies of knowledge : _bscience, scale, and spatiality in the nineteenth century / _cedited by Robert J. Mayhew & Charles W. J. Withers.
260			_aBaltimore, Md. : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c2020.
300			_axii, 273 p. : _bill., map.
490	1		_aMedicine, science, and religion in historical context
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Thinking geographically about science in the nineteenth century / Robert J. Mayhew and Charles W. J. Withers -- Locating Malthus's essay : localism and the construction of social science, 1798-1826 / Robert J. Mayhew and Yvonne Sherratt -- Revisiting Belfast : Tyndall, science, and the plurality of place / Diarmid A. Finnegan -- Henry Hotze in place : religion, science, confederate propaganda, and race / Mark Noll -- "Made in America" : the politics of place in debates over science and religion / Ronald L. Numbers -- Putting the structuralist theory of evolution in its place / Nicolaas Rupke -- Science, sites, and situated practice : debating the prime meridian in the International Geographical Congress, 1871-1904 / Charles W. J. Withers -- Illustrating nature : exploration, natural history, and the travels of Charlotte WheelerCuffe in Burma / Nuala C. Johnson -- Climate, environment, and the colonial experience / Vinita Damodaran -- Lost in place : two expeditions gone awry in Africa / Dane Kennedy.
520			_a"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"--
650		4	_aScience _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aScientific expeditions _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aIntellectual life _xHistory.
700	1		_aMayhew, Robert J. _q(Robert John), _d1971-
700	1		_aWithers, Charles W. J.
830		0	_aMedicine, science, and religion in historical context.
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