Spaces of Enlightenment Science: 8 (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy)

Where did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the “geographies of knowledge”, it examines the relationship between “space” and “place”, institutions, “objects”, and “ideas”, showing the ways in which the location of science really matters.

Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

Gordon McOuat is Professor of History of Science and Technology at the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University. His works include "The Origins of Natural Kinds" (2009), "J.B.S. Haldane’s Passage to India: reconfiguring science" (2017), and several co-edited volumes, including Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), Science and Narratives of Nature: East and West (Taylor and Francis, 2017).
Larry Stewart is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan and Associated Scholar at the University of King’s College, Halifax. His numerous articles and books on Early Modern science include Rise of Public Science (CUP 1992), Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire 1687-1851 (with Margaret Jacob, Harvard, 2004), and co-edited volumes including The Romance of Science (Springer, 2017), Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, China and India (Brill, 2013), and Uses of Humans in Experiment (Brill, 2016).