Urban Histories of Science: Making Knowledge in the City, 1820-1940

ISBN-13: 9780367585389 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Oliver Hochadel; Agustí Nieto-Galan

Opis

This edited volume tells eleven Urban Histories of Science from cities situated on the margins of Europe around 1900. Most diverse scientific practices were intimately intertwined with the dynamics of the urban space. This book shows that the "periphery" is a valuable object of study in its own right.

Spis treści

 

List of Figures vii

Notes on Contributors x

Preface xiv

Urban Histories of Science: How to Tell the Tale

Oliver Hochadel and Agustí Nieto-Galan

1 Envisioning a New European Metropolis: Designing the Athens Observatory (1842)

Maria Rentetzi and Spiros Flevaris

2 Institutionalizing the “Metropolis of Mechanics”: Philosophical Engineering in the City of Glasgow c. 1820–c. 1875

Ben Marsden

3 The Natural Sciences and Their Public at the Meetings of the Hungarian Association for the Advancement of Science in Budapest and Beyond, 1841–1896

Katalin Stráner

4 Copepods and Fisher Boys: Advanced Marine Biological Research and Street Poverty in Naples c. 1890

Katharina Steiner

5 Locating Dublin in the Late Nineteenth-Century Ether

Tanya O’Sullivan

6 Second City of Science? Dublin as a Center of Calculation in the British Imperial Context, 1886–1912

Juliana Adelman

7 From Capital City to Scientific Capital: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Lisbon as Seen through the Press, 1900–1910

Ana Simões

8 Collective Expertise behind the Urban Planning of Munkkiniemi and Haaga, Helsinki (c. 1915)

Emilia Karppinen

9 On Hygiene in a Modern Peripheral City: Buenos Aires, 1870–1940

Diego Armus

10 From Electricity to the Photo Archive: National Identity and the Planning of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition

Lucila Mallart

Index

O autorze

Oliver Hochadel is based at the IMF-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) in Barcelona.

Agustí Nieto-Galan is Professor of History of Science at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.