Making Space for Science

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Making Space for Science

   1. Introduction: Making Space for Science

      • Crosbie Smith, Jon Agar

      Pages 1-23

3. Of the Territory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Projection and the Ubiquitous Virtue of Geometry in the Renaissance

      • Jim Bennett

      Pages 27-38

   3. From the Alps to Egypt (and Back Again): Dolomieu, Scientific Voyaging, and the Construction of the Field in Eighteenth-Century Natural History

      • Alix Cooper

      Pages 39-63

   4. ‘I Do Know the Machinery of the Universe’: System and Individuality in Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka

      • Ian Higginson

      Pages 64-83

4. Of Working Classes

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. ‘A Most Important Trespass’: Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 1840–55

      • Ben Marsden

      Pages 87-117

   3. ‘Nowhere But in a Great Town’: William Thomson’s Spiral of Classroom Credibility

      • Crosbie Smith

      Pages 118-146

5. Of Pastoral Privileges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House

      • Simon Schaffer

      Pages 149-180

   3. Spatial Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Science: Faraday and Tyndall

      • Alice Jenkins

      Pages 181-191

6. Of Metropolitan Spaces

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. ‘But Indifferently Lodged…’: Perception and Place in Building for Science in Victorian London

      • Sophie Forgan

      Pages 195-215

   3. The Premisses of Premises: Spatial Issues in the Historical Construction of Laboratory Credibility

      • Graeme Gooday

      Pages 216-245

   4. Easy Transit: Crossing Boundaries Between Physics and Chemistry in mid-Nineteenth Century France

      • Matthias Dörries

      Pages 246-262

7. Of Research Sites

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263

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   2. Screening Science: Spatial Organization and Valuation at Jodrell Bank

      • Jon Agar

      Pages 265-280

   3. Biotechnology’s Private Parts (and Some Public Ones)

      • Thomas F. Gieryn

      Pages 281-312

   4. ‘Nobody Can Force You When You Are Across the Ocean’ — Face to Face and E-Mail Exchanges Between Theoretical Physicists

      • Martina Merz

      Pages 313-329

In recent years there has been a growing recognition that a mature analysis of scientific and technological activity requires an understanding of its spatial contexts. Without these contexts, indeed, scientific practice as such is scarcely conceivable. Making Space for Science brings together contributors with diverse interests in the history, sociology and cultural studies of science and technology since the Renaissance. The editors aim to provide a series of studies, drawn from the history of science and engineering, from sociology and sociology and science, from literature and science, and from architecture and design history, which examine the spatial foundations of the sciences from a number of complementary perspectives.

• cultural studies
• individual
• individuality
• perception
• renaissance

• University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

  Crosbie Smith

• University of Manchester, UK

  Jon Agar

Crosbie Smith is Reader in History and Cultural Studies of Science at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Jon Agar is Lecturer in the History of Technology at the University of Manchester.

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