Spaces of Enlightenment Science

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).

"This book would make an especially good addition to collections on the history of science and the Enlightenment period. Most essays are both interesting and readable, and the volume should be attractive to students."– A. C. Prendergast, University of South Alabama, in: CHOICE 60.1 (September 2022)"As a whole this book is a very fine collection of essays, providing the reader with significant and original case studies on the changing role of spaces in the eighteenth century scientific and technical research." – Marco Beretta, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, in: Nuncius 38 (2023), pp. 485-487.

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionGordon McOuat and Larry Stewart2 Escape from Capnopolis: William Stukeley’s ‘True Academick Life’Rob Iliffe3 Something is in the Air: Experimental Spaces, Analogical Reasoning, and the Problem of Putrefaction in Enlightenment EuropeMargaret Carlyle and Victor D. Boantza4 Instrument Makers, Shops, and Expertise in Eighteenth-Century LondonJasmine Kilburn-Toppin5 ‘My Collection in All Its Branches’: The Imagined Space of Early Modern Scientific CorrespondenceAlice Marples6 The Dissemination of Chemical Theory and Chemical Instruments through Cabinets, Laboratories, Lecture Theatres and Museums during the Napoleonic WarsTrevor H. Levere7 The Public Space of Knowledge and the Public Sphere of ScienceMarie Thébaud-Sorger8 The Space Between: James Dinwiddie and the Transit of Science, 1760–1815Larry Stewart9 “Both by Sea and Land”: William Whiston, Longitude, and the Measurement of SpaceSimon WerretIndex