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List of Illustrations - Preface - Notes on the Contributors -Introduction: Making Space for Science; J.Agar & C.Smith - PART 1: OFTHE TERRITORY - Projection and the Ubiquitous Virtue of Geometry in theRenaissance; J.Bennett - From the Alps to Egypt (and Back Again):Dolomieu, Scientific Voyaging, and the Construction of the Field inEighteenth-Century Natural History; A.Cooper - 'I Do Know the Machineryof the Universe': System and Individuality in Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka;I.Higginson - PART 2: OF WORKING CLASSES - 'A Most Important Trespass':Lewis Gordon and the Glasgow Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics1840-1855; B.Marsden - 'Nowhere but in a Great Town': William Thomson'sSpiral of Class-room Credibility; C.Smith - PART 3: OF PASTORALPRIVILEGES - Physics Laboratories and the Victorian Country House;S.Schaffer - Spatial Imagery in Nineteenth-century Representations ofScience: Faraday and Tyndall; A.Jenkins - PART 4: OF METROPOLITANSPACES - 'But Indifferently Lodged...': Perception and Place inBuilding for Science in Victorian London; S.Forgan - The Premisses ofPremises: Spatial Issues in the Historical Construction of LaboratoryCredibility; G.Gooday - East Transit. Crossing the Border betweenPhysics and Chemistry in Mid-nineteenth Century France; M.Dorries PART5: OF RESEARCH SITES - Screening Science: Spatial Organization andValuation at Jodrell Bank; J.Agar - Biotechnology's Private Parts (andsome Public Ones); T.F.Gieryn - 'Nobody can Force you when you areacross the Ocean': Face to Face and E-mail Exchanges BetweenTheoretical Physicists; M.Merz - Afterword: Scientific Knowledge, Powerand Space; A.Dolby - Bibliography - Index