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This book is an exploration of the geographical dimensions of science in the nineteenth century. It is intended as a contribution to continuing discussions between geographers, historians of science, historians, and others about the importance of place and space to an understanding in historical context of what science was, why science took the shape it did in a particular place and not somewhere else, and why “where” questions are vital in explanation of science's “what,” “how,” “who,” and “when.” Not so long ago, perhaps, research into the historical geographies of science might have seemed, even for geographers, an obtuse field: after all, was not science supposed to be placeless? And so too for historians of science, whose subject of study, albeit of different periods and often in quite different ways, was about explaining the nature and content of science in its temporal dimensions and hardly at all about its geographical ones. But questions concerning the importance of space and place to an understanding of the making and communication of science—actually, of all intellectual work—have come to the fore in recent years. There has been, indeed, an evident “spatial turn” in the humanities and the social sciences. Scientists too—some of them anyway—recognize the socially constructed and situated nature of their authoritative claims over science. It is now possible to use terms such as the “geography of science,” even the “historical geography of science,” and for them to be understood as pertaining to a distinct field of inquiry.
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