Book contents
- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Map
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
- 1 Scientific Imagination and Local Knowledge at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century
- 2 Scientific Governance and Colonial Institutions, c. 1800–70
- 3 Technological Innovation and the Scientific Imagination in Mining and Agriculture, 1870–1902
- 4 Science, Reconstruction and the Imagining of the First ‘New’ South Africa, 1902–29
- 5 The Commonwealth of Knowledge, 1930–48
- 6 The Republic of Science, 1948–90
- 7 Big Science and Indigenous Knowledge: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the African Renaissance
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Copyright page
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Map
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Scientific Imagination in South Africa
- 1 Scientific Imagination and Local Knowledge at the Cape in the Eighteenth Century
- 2 Scientific Governance and Colonial Institutions, c. 1800–70
- 3 Technological Innovation and the Scientific Imagination in Mining and Agriculture, 1870–1902
- 4 Science, Reconstruction and the Imagining of the First ‘New’ South Africa, 1902–29
- 5 The Commonwealth of Knowledge, 1930–48
- 6 The Republic of Science, 1948–90
- 7 Big Science and Indigenous Knowledge: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the African Renaissance
- Afterword
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- The Scientific Imagination in South Africa1700 to the Present, pp. ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021