History of science's spatial turn has focused on the horizontal dimension, leaving the role of the vertical mostly unexplored as both a condition and object of scientific knowledge production. This special issue seeks to contribute to a burgeoning discussion on the role of verticality in modern sciences, building upon a wider interdisciplinary debate about the importance of the vertical and the volumetric in the making of modern lifeworlds. In this essay and in the contributions that follow, verticality appears as a condition of knowledge production—a set of movements and mobilities, technical challenges, political negotiations, and bodily hardships—and an object of scientific inquiry, requiring new techniques of mapping and visualisation and generative of new insights into physical processes and temporal change. By foregrounding the vertical, historians of science can gain new insights and tell new stories about how science is done in the field, the observatory, and the laboratory, and about how those sciences have helped build a modern, three‐dimensional world.

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简介—上，下，绕一圈：科学史上的垂直性

科学的空间转向历史集中在水平维度上，而垂直的角色作为科学知识生产的条件和客体，却大多未被探索。本期专栏文章旨在就垂直性在现代科学中的作用进行迅速的讨论，它建立在关于垂直性和体积在现代生活世界的形成中的重要性的更广泛的跨学科辩论的基础上。在本文和后续的研究中，垂直性是知识生产的条件，是一系列运动和动员，技术挑战，政治谈判和人身苦难的条件，也是科学探究的对象，需要新的绘图和可视化技术并产生对物理过程和时间变化的新见解。通过垂直显示