We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challenge the work of a scientist in New York; and of course the laws of gravity apply worldwide. Why, then, should the spaces where science is done matter at all? David N. Livingstone here puts that question to the test with his fascinating study of how science bears the marks of its place of production. Putting Science in Its Place establishes the fundamental importance of geography in both the generation and the consumption of scientific knowledge, using historical examples of the many places where science has been practiced. Livingstone first turns his attention to some of the specific sites where science has been made—the laboratory, museum, and botanical garden, to name some of the more conventional locales, but also places like the coffeehouse and cathedral, ship's deck and asylum, even the human body itself. In each case, he reveals just how the space of inquiry has conditioned the investigations carried out there. He then describes how, on a regional scale, provincial cultures have shaped scientific endeavor and how, in turn, scientific practices have been instrumental in forming local identities. Widening his inquiry, Livingstone points gently to the fundamental instability of scientific meaning, based on case studies of how scientific theories have been received in different locales. Putting Science in Its Place powerfully concludes by examining the remarkable mobility of science and the seemingly effortless way it moves around the globe. From the reception of Darwin in the land of the Maori to the giraffe that walked from Marseilles to Paris, Livingstone shows that place does matter, even in the world of science.

Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge (science.culture)

Science & Math

Livingstone, David N>

History & Philosophy

University of Chicago Press

Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge

History

Ulster-American Religion: Episodes in the History of a Cultural Connection (The Irish in America)

This work offers an observation on the history of the cultural connections between Ulster and America for students of history, theology, politics, sociology and Irish studies.

Wells, Ronald A.

World

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

David N. Livingstone and Ronald A. Wells are scholars interested in the cultural and social location of ideas. Their transatlantic religious and cultural history explores the connection between Presbyterianism in Northern Ireland and the United States over 150 years. They identify religious ideologies and practices in their various roles during this period, and situate them culturally. By observing how context shapes and interprets the Presbyterian religion and culture in Ulster and America, they reveal the way in which intellectual and cultural meanings of religious belief change over time.

This is the first intellectual history of a subject which over the last five centuries has played a significant role in the development of Western civilization. The author describes the activities of the explorers and map-makers of Renaissance and early modern Europe; the role of geography during the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and the Darwinian Revolution; and the interactions between geography and empire building in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Throughout the book the development of geographical thought and practice is portrayed against the broader social and intellectual context of the times. Since 1945 activity in the subject has been intense: David Livingstone provides a critical account of the trends, developments and occasional revolutions by which geography has emerged as a multi-faceted discipline offering unique and revealing perspectives on a wide range of pressing social and environmental issues.

The Geographic Tradition: Episodes in the History of a Contested Enterprise

Travel

Blackwell Pub.

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Princeton University Press

Are naturalistic evolution and Christian creation irreconcilable ideologies? In this collection of B B Warfield's writings, editors Mark A Noll and David N Livingstone demonstrate that theologians have not always thought so. Around the turn of the twentieth century, Princeton theologian B B Warfield believed that synthesizing his commitment to the scientific validity of evolution and to the inerrancy of the Bible was an attainable theological task. By drawing reasonable distinctions among Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and evolution, he was able to accept the probability of evolution while denying the implications of full-blown Darwinism. In the realm of inerrancy and evolution, Warfield's writings exemplify civil Christian scholarship and shrewd scientific discernment. His articles speak for themselves and inform the contemporary dialogue between science and theology.

Evolution, Science, and Scripture: Selected Writings

Religion & Spirituality

Noll, Mark A.

Warfield, Benjamin B.

Christian Books & Bibles

Baker Pub Group

Although the idea that all human beings are descended from Adam is a long-standing conviction in the West, another version of this narrative exists: human beings inhabited the Earth before, or alongside, Adam, and their descendants still occupy the planet.In this engaging and provocative work, David N. Livingstone traces the history of the idea of non-adamic humanity, and the debates surrounding it, from the Middle Ages to the present day. From a multidisciplinary perspective, Livingstone examines how this alternative idea has been used for cultural, religious, and political purposes. He reveals how what began as biblical criticism became a theological apologetic to reconcile religion with science—evolution in particular—and was later used to support arguments for white supremacy and segregation. From heresy to orthodoxy, from radicalism to conservatism, from humanitarianism to racism, Adam's Ancestors tells an intriguing tale of twists and turns in the cultural politics surrounding the age-old question, "Where did we come from?"

Adam's Ancestors: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Human Origins (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)

Americas

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Argues that the creationist movement is not rooted in evangelicalism, but in twentieth century fundamentalism, and analyzes the initial reception of Darwin's theory

Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: The Encounter Between Evangelical Theology and Evolutionary Thought

Eerdmans Pub.Co.

Nathaniel Southgate Shaler and the Culture of American Science (History of American Science and Technology)

University Alabama Press

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