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By Peter Meusburger,David Livingstone,Heike Jöns

ISBN-10: 9048186102

ISBN-13: 9789048186105

ISBN-10: 9400732260

ISBN-13: 9789400732261

This number of essays goals to additional the certainty of old and modern geographies of technology. It deals a clean point of view on comparative techniques to medical wisdom and perform as pursued via geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians of technology. The authors discover the formation and altering geographies of clinical facilities from the 16th to the 20th centuries and severely talk about the designing of information areas in early museums, in smooth laboratories, at international festivals, and within the outer edge of up to date technological know-how. in addition they learn the interactions among technology and the general public in Victorian Britain, interwar Germany, and up to date environmental coverage debates. The e-book offers a real geographical point of view at the creation and dissemination of information and should therefore be a big element of reference for these drawn to the spatial family members of technological know-how and linked fields.


The Klaus Tschira origin helps various symposia, the essence of that's released during this Springer sequence (www.kts.villa-bosch.de).

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