Regionalizing Science
Placing Knowledges in Victorian England
Published on 12. September 2016
260 pages
978-0-8229-8180-0 (ISBN)
Description
Victorian England, as is well known, produced an enormous amount of scientific endeavour, but what has previously been overlooked is the important role of geography on these developments.
Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
Naylor seeks to rectify this imbalance by presenting a historical geography of regional science. Taking an in-depth look at the county of Cornwall, questions on how science affected provincial Victorian society, how it changed people's relationship with the landscape and how it shaped society are applied to the Cornish case study, allowing a depth and texture of analysis denied to more general scientific overviews of the period.
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Simon Naylor is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Glasgow.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction: A Biography of a Scientific Region
- 1. Confined to a Small Round
- 2. Healthy Recreation and Headwork
- 3. The Sweet Road to Improvement
- 4. The Depths of the Billows
- 5. A Large Natural Greenhouse of England
- 6. More Facts, More Remains
- 7. A Furious Tempest
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
