Spaces and geographies of science: nature, cities and laboratories in the historiography of science Authors Ignacio Suay-Matallana Universidad Miguel Hernández Keywords: spaces and geographies of science, nature, cities, laboratories, customs, historiography, XIXth and XXth centuries Abstract The main aim of this article is to show recent historical works related to scientific spaces and geographies of the science, a field of studies that offers excellent possibilities of study, and that can be studied considering a large variety of approaches, contexts and case studies. First, I will show that the nature is a space where a large number of scientific activities are produced, involving the participation of both experts and lay people. Later, I will show that cities are not just spaces where many scientific institutions are concentrated, but also a place constructed —at least in part— because of numerous scientific exchanges. Finally, I will focus on another scale of scientific spaces to consider some specific scientific spaces such as classrooms, hospitals, and laboratories. The aim of this article is to show how these levels —nature, cities and specific space— offer a great opportunity for history of science studies, when they are considered not just as passive agents nor independent units, but as scientific spaces connected with each other, and with society.Key words: spaces and geographies of science, nature, cities, laboratories, customs,historiography, XIXth and XXth centuries Downloads PDF (Català) Issue Vol. 11 (2018) Section Activities of the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On submitting articles for publication to the journal Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica.Authors answer to Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica (SCHCT) for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.SCHCT declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Actes d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.
