Regionalizing Science:
Placing Knowledges in Victorian England
Simon Naylor
Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
978 1 85196 636 3: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 85196 679 0
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, Naylor examines the mobilization of science - including geology, natural history, meteorology and antiquarianism - as a powerful means of understanding, promoting and improving the region. The inter-relations of different scientific practitioners in place is also considered, as is science’s role in connecting society and space.
This is the first modern scholarly work to address regional science in an integrated way, for this region. A concerted focus on the Cornish case-study allows a depth and texture of analysis otherwise denied to studies with a more general geographical scope or narrower scientific focus.
Readership
History of Science, Historical Geography, Nineteenth-Century and Natural Sciences