Science and the city /
edited by Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund and J. Andrew Mendelsohn.
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- 282 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Osiris ; 18 .
- Osiris (Bruges, Belgium) ; 2nd ser., v. 18. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : toward an urban history of science / The city of Paris and the rise of clinical medicine / Friends of nature : urban sociability and regional natural history in Dresden, 1800-1850 / Science in a Chinese entrept���� : British naturalists and their Chinese associates in old Canton / The fading star of the Paris Observatory in the nineteenth century : astronomers' urban culture of circulation and observation / Organizing sight, seeing organization : the diverging optical possibilities of city and country / Engines for experiment : laboratory revolution and industrial labor in the nineteenth-century city / Nineteenth-century urban cartography and the scientific ideal : the case of Paris / The microscopist of modern life / 'The city of din' : decibels, noise, and neighbors in the Netherlands, 1910-1980 / Anomie in the metropolis : the city in American sociology and psychiatry / 'Traditional working-class neighborhoods' : an inquiry into the emergence of a sociological model in the 1950s and 1960s / Exploring the city of rubble : botanical fieldwork in bombed cities in Germany after World War II / Dreaming the new Atlantis : science and the planning of Technopolis, 1955-1985 / Sven Dierig, Jens Lachmund and J. Andrew Mendelsohn -- Dora B. Weiner and Michael J. Sauter -- Denise Phillips -- Fa-Ti Fan -- David Aubin -- Theresa Levitt -- Sven Dierig -- Antoine Picone -- J. Andrew Mendelsohn -- Karin Busterveld -- Hans Pols -- Christian Topalov -- Jens Lachmund -- Rosemary Wakeman.