TY - JOUR
AU - Cantor, Geoffrey
AB - Metascience (2014) 23:191–194 DOI 10.1007/s11016-013-9804-4 BOOK REVIEW David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers (eds): Geographies of nineteenth-century science. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011, 536pp, $55.00 HB Geoffrey Cantor Published online: 15 May 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Historians of science have moved far from the Platonic notion that scientific ideas possess a disembodied existence and hover in the ether. Instead there has been widespread recognition that science has to be contextualized in its historical framework and understood as a complex practice involving objects, individuals and social formations—all of which are localized in physical space. This commitment to contextualization implies that historians need to recognize the significance of specific geographical locations in which science is pursued and the ways in which scientists and scientific knowledge circulate in specific spaces. These insights underpin the present volume and the two previous collections—Geography and Enlightenment (1999) and Geography and Revolution (2005)—edited by David Livingstone and Charles Withers. With this new collection of seventeen diverse essays, the spotlight moves onto the nineteenth century. The essays in the present volume both demonstrate a variety of different roles played by space in the analysis of nineteenth-century science and confirm the 
TI - Of maps and chaps
JO - Metascience
DO - 10.1007/s11016-013-9804-4
DA - 2013-05-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/of-maps-and-chaps-sp0SBagLlI
SP - 191
EP - 194
VL - 23
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -