Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 538
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ISBN-10 : 9780226487267
ISBN-13 : 0226487261
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Download or read book Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science written by David N. Livingstone and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, David Livingstone and Charles Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning authority, and identity.


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