1st Edition
Science in the Metropolis Vienna in Transnational Context, 1848–1918
1. Metropolitan Scientific Infrastructures and Spaces of Knowledge in Vienna, 1848–1918: An Introduction
Mitchell G. Ash
Part 1: Historiographical Overviews
2. Metropolitan Natural Histories: Inventing Science, Building Cities, and Displaying the World
Dorothee Brantz
3. Periphery and Metropolis: Some Historiographical Reflections on the Urban History of Science
Oliver Hochadel
Part 2: Focus on Vienna 1: Technical and Science-Based Infrastructures, 1850–1875
4. The Beginnings of the "City Machine": Infrastructure Expansion and International Technology Transfer in Vienna, 1850–1875
Sándor Békési
5. Metropolitan Geology and Metropolitan Collections: Turning Vienna into Stones in the Nineteenth Century
Marianne Klemun
Part 3: Comparative Studies and Metropolitan Networks, 1870s–1910s
6. Polar Waters in Metropolitan Space: Circulating Knowledge About the Ice-Free Arctic Ocean in Hamburg and Vienna
Ulrike Spring
7. Academic Geography and Its Networks in Vienna and Berlin: A First Comparative Study
Petra Svatek
8. Capital Collections, Complex Systems: Vienna, Berlin, and Ethnographic Specimen Exchanges in Transnational Fin de Siècle Scientific Networks
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak
Part 4: Focus on Vienna 2: Sciences and Publics
9. Talking About Popular Science in the Metropolis: Learned Societies, Multiple Publics and Spatial Practices in Vienna (1840–1900)
Johannes Mattes
10. Science-Oriented Popular Education: Heterotopic Learning Venues for Scientific Knowledge in Vienna, 1887–1918
Christian H. Stifter
Biography
Mitchell G. Ash is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Vienna, Austria, and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
