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A bibliography is available at the publisher’s website (www.jhu.press.edu); search for this book by title or by author for a link to the bibliography. Chapter 1 • Dealing with Darwin 1. Edward Said, “Traveling Theory,” reprinted as chapter 10 of The World, the Text and the Critic (London: Vintage, 1991), p. 226. 2. See James A. Secord, “Knowledge in Transit,” Isis 95 (2004): 654–672, on pp. 663–664. 3. See David N. Livingstone, “Science, Text and Space: Thoughts on the Geography of Reading,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35 (2005): 391–401; and David N. Livingstone, “Science, Site and Speech: Scientific Knowledge and the Spaces of Rhetoric,” History of the Human Sciences 20 (2007): 71–98. The following paragraphs are drawn from these pieces. 4. Nicolaas Rupke, “A Geography of Enlightenment: The Critical Reception of Alexander von Humboldt’s Mexico work,” in David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, eds., Geography and Enlightenment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 281–294, on p. 336. 5. James A. Secord, Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 14, 24. 6. Diarmid A. Finnegan, “The Work of Ice: Glacial Theory and Scientific Culture in Early Victorian Edinburgh,” British Journal for the History of Science 37 (2004): 29–52. 7. See Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), and Charles W. J. Withers, Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 8. Rebekah Higgitt, Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of NineteenthCentury History of Science (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007). 9. David N. Livingstone, “Politics, Culture and Human Origins: Geographies of Reading and Reputation in Nineteenth Century Science,” in David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers, eds., Geographies of Nineteenth Century Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), pp. 178–202. 10. Nicolaas A. Rupke, Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), p. 16. For a similar study of the changing posthumous reputations of the missionary explorer David Livingstone, see Justin D. Livingstone, Livingstone’s ‘Lives’: A Metabiography of a Victorian Icon (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014). 11. Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus (London: Heinemann, 2004), p. 255. n o t e s 210 Notes to Pages 4–7 12. Innes M. Keighren, “Bringing Geography to the Book: Charting the Reception of Influences of Geographic Environment,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 31 (2006): 525–540. See also Innes M. Keighren, Bringing Geography to Book: Ellen Semple and the Reception of Geographical Knowledge (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010). 13. Bruno Latour, Science in Action (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1987). 14. Marwa Elshakry, “Knowledge in Motion: the Cultural Politics of Modern Science Translations in Arabic,” Isis 99 (2008): 701–730 on pp. 702, 703. 15. James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). 16. Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in this Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980). 17. Jonathan Rose, “Arriving at a History of Reading,” Historically Speaking 5, no. 3 (2004): 36–39, on p. 39. 18. Theodore Zeldin, Conversation (London: Harvill Press, 1998), pp. 14, 7. See also Stephen Miller, Conversation: A History of a Declining Art (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006). 19. Quoted in Steven Shapin, “Cordelia’s Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science,” Perspectives on Science 3 (1995): 255–275, on p. 256. 20. See Alice Walters, “Conversation Pieces: Science and Polite Society in EighteenthCentury England,” History of Science 35 (1997): 121–154. 21. Joseph Addison, Essays Moral and Humorous and Essays on Imagination and Taste (Edinburgh: Chambers, 1839), p. 177. 22. For geographical perspectives on such matters, see Miles Ogborn, “The Power of Speech: Orality, Oaths and Evidence in the British Atlantic World, 1650–1800,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 36 (2011): 109–125; Miles Ogborn, “Talking Plants: Botany and Speech in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica,” History of Science 51 (2013): 251–282. 23. See, e.g., Geoffrey V. Sutton, Science for a Polite Society: Gender, Culture, and the Demonstration of Enlightenment (Boulder: Westview, 1995); Mary Terrall, “Salon, Academy, and Boudoir: Generation and Desire in Maupertuis’s Science of Life,” Isis 87 (1996): 217–229. 24. James A. Secord, “How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk,” in Aileen Fyfe and Bernard Lightman, eds., Science in the Marketplace...

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