Osiris, Volume 18
Science and the City

325 pages
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6-3/4 x 10
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© 2003
- Contents
Table of Contents

Contents
SVEN DIERIG, JENS LACHMUND, AND ANDREW MENDELSOHN: Introduction: Toward an Urban History of Science
SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF MODERN CITIES
DORA WEINER AND MICHAEL SAUTER: The City of Paris and the Rise of Clinical Medicine
DENISE PHILLIPS: Friends of Nature: Urban Sociability and Regional Natural History in Dresden, 1800-1850
FA-TI FAN: Science in a Chinese Entrepot: British Naturalists and their Chinese Associates in Old Canton
DAVID AUBIN: The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomers Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation
THERESA LEVITT: Organizing Sight, Seeing Organization: The Diverging Optical Possibilities of City and Country
SVEN DIERIG: Engines for Experiment: Laboratory Revolution and Industrial Labor in the Nineteenth-Century City
ANTOINE PICON: Nineteenth-Century Cartography and the Urban Ideal in Paris
J. ANDREW MENDELSOHN: The Microscopist of Modern Life
SCIENCE AND THE CITY AFTER 1900
KARIN BIJSTERVELD: "The City of Din": Decibels, Noise and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980
HANS POLS: Anomie in the Metropolis: The City in American Sociology and Psychiatry
CHRISTIAN TOPALOV: "Traditional Working-Class Neighborhoods:" An Inquiry into the Emergence of a Sociological Model in the 1950s and 1960s
JENS LACHMUND: Exploring the City of Rubble: Botanical Fieldwork in Bombed Cities in Germany after World War II
ROSEMARY WAKEMAN: Dreaming the New Atlantis: Science and the Planning of Technopolis, 1955-1985
SCIENCE AND THE RISE OF MODERN CITIES
DORA WEINER AND MICHAEL SAUTER: The City of Paris and the Rise of Clinical Medicine
DENISE PHILLIPS: Friends of Nature: Urban Sociability and Regional Natural History in Dresden, 1800-1850
FA-TI FAN: Science in a Chinese Entrepot: British Naturalists and their Chinese Associates in Old Canton
DAVID AUBIN: The Fading Star of the Paris Observatory in the Nineteenth Century: Astronomers Urban Culture of Circulation and Observation
THERESA LEVITT: Organizing Sight, Seeing Organization: The Diverging Optical Possibilities of City and Country
SVEN DIERIG: Engines for Experiment: Laboratory Revolution and Industrial Labor in the Nineteenth-Century City
ANTOINE PICON: Nineteenth-Century Cartography and the Urban Ideal in Paris
J. ANDREW MENDELSOHN: The Microscopist of Modern Life
SCIENCE AND THE CITY AFTER 1900
KARIN BIJSTERVELD: "The City of Din": Decibels, Noise and Neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980
HANS POLS: Anomie in the Metropolis: The City in American Sociology and Psychiatry
CHRISTIAN TOPALOV: "Traditional Working-Class Neighborhoods:" An Inquiry into the Emergence of a Sociological Model in the 1950s and 1960s
JENS LACHMUND: Exploring the City of Rubble: Botanical Fieldwork in Bombed Cities in Germany after World War II
ROSEMARY WAKEMAN: Dreaming the New Atlantis: Science and the Planning of Technopolis, 1955-1985
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