Metropolitan Science: London Sites and Cultures of Knowledge and Practice, c. 1600-1800

Cover -- Contents -- List of figures and plates -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- London, c. 1600-1800 -- Metropolitan science -- Places, spaces and things -- Case studies -- 2 City sights: Objects of knowledge and sites of exchange -- The river of Thames -- City stre...

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Hauptverfasser: Higgitt, Rebekah (VerfasserIn), Kilburn-Toppin, Jasmine (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Moxham, Noah (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2024
Ausgabe:1st ed.
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Zusammenfassung:Cover -- Contents -- List of figures and plates -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- London, c. 1600-1800 -- Metropolitan science -- Places, spaces and things -- Case studies -- 2 City sights: Objects of knowledge and sites of exchange -- The river of Thames -- City streets -- Shops and signs -- Institutional spaces -- 3 Technical knowledge, experiment and secrecy at the seventeenth-century Mint -- Introduction -- The Royal Mint, technical knowledge and secrecy -- Recoinage and regulating space -- Assay, experiment and secrets -- Conclusion -- 4 Manufacture, mathematics and experiment at the Ordnance Office and Arsenal -- Introduction -- Smiths, gunners and mathematicians at the Tower -- Experiment at the Tower and beyond -- Training: Laboratory and classroom -- Woolwich Warren: Combining theory and practice -- Conclusion -- 5 Artisanal and mercantile knowledge production and exchange at livery company halls -- Introduction -- The Assay Office at Goldsmiths' Hall -- The Anatomy Theatre at Barber Surgeons' Hall -- Conclusion -- 6 Experience and expertise at the Trinity House in Water Lane -- Introduction -- Authority, experience and expertise -- Experience, knowledge and utility -- Trinity House and mathematical navigation -- Reasserting experience -- Conclusion -- 7 Regulating practice and using knowledge at East India House -- Introduction -- Information and security at East India House -- Regulation of navigational practice and its impact -- The uses of knowledge -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite [200]-218. - Index
Beschreibung:viii, 224 Seiten, 4 Seiten ungezählte Bildtafeln 24 cm
ISBN:9781350417038