Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 The Netherlands as a Laboratory of Knowing: Introduction to Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts -- Part 1 Cities -- Chapter 2 Science in the Theatre of Towns -- Chapter 3 The 'Duytsche Mathematique' and Leiden Family Networks, 1600-1620 -- Chapter 4 The Middelburg Theatrum Anatomicum: A Location of Knowledge and Culture in an Early Urban Context -- Part 2 Connections -- Chapter 5 Breyne's Botany: (Re-)locating Nature and Knowledge in Danzig (circa 1660-1730) -- Chapter 6 An Amphibious Science: Where Storms Took Shape -- Chapter 7 Science to Bring the Nation Together: The Formation of Nomadic Congresses in the Netherlands and Flanders -- Chapter 8 Between Openness and Classification: Early Dutch Ultracentrifuge Development in International Context -- Part 3 Transformations -- Chapter 9 The Disputation Hall in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic: An Urban Location of Knowledge -- Chapter 10 The Lorentz Transformation of a Museum -- Chapter 11 Scientists in Cowsheds: Disputes over Hygienic Milk Production in the Netherlands, 1918-1928 -- Chapter 12 Blending Research: Linking Dutch Industrial and Academic Polymer Laboratories, 1940-1980 -- Index.

Locations of Knowledge in Dutch Contexts examines how places give shape to scientific knowledge production. Contributors to this volume use four hundred years of Dutch history as laboratory to contribute to spatialized understanding of the history of knowledge.

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