Science, text and space: Thoughts on the geography of reading

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 391-401

  Livingstone, David N ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Darwinism; Hermeneutics; Reading; Scientific meaning; Spacesof science; Textual space

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL THEORY; HERMENEUTICS;

EID: 33745269258     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2005.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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