Making Space for Science

Chapter 1 Introduction: Making Space for Science

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

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

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

Chapter 5 ‘A Most Important Trespass’: Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, 1840–55

Chapter 6 ‘Nowhere But in a Great Town’: William Thomson’s Spiral of Classroom Credibility

Chapter 7 Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House

Chapter 8 Spatial Imagery in Nineteenth-Century Representations of Science: Faraday and Tyndall

Chapter 9 ‘But Indifferently Lodged…’: Perception and Place in Building for Science in Victorian London

Chapter 10 The Premisses of Premises: Spatial Issues in the Historical Construction of Laboratory Credibility

Chapter 11 Easy Transit: Crossing Boundaries Between Physics and Chemistry in mid-Nineteenth Century France

Chapter 12 Screening Science: Spatial Organization and Valuation at Jodrell Bank

Chapter 13 Biotechnology’s Private Parts (and Some Public Ones)

Chapter 14 ‘Nobody Can Force You When You Are Across the Ocean’ — Face to Face and E-Mail Exchanges Between Theoretical Physicists

Chapter 15 Afterword: Scientific Knowledge, Power and Space