文章将科学地理学、科学知识地理学、科学社会地理学、科学文化地理学等研究归结为“科学的地理研究”,并接受利文斯通《将科学置于地方》的主张,在地方、区域、全球空间耦合的框架内重新评估了目前存在二元论倾向的科学的空间研究和科学的地方研究两种倾向,重新将科学的地理研究框架表达为:科学的空间研究、科学的区域研究、科学的地方研究;这一框架中的三项研究与科学社会学、科学的文化研究、科学知识社会学有着一定的对应关系。基于将“地理”视为科学发生和运动的“媒介”,科学的地理研究能够揭示出科学活动可以在地点/地方、区域、全球之间获得耦合,而不必是地方与全球之间的二元对立。
This paper holds the view that the studies on geography of science, geography of scientific knowledge, socio-geography of science and cultural geography of science can be concluded in a concept of "scientific geography study". Influenced by geographer David N. Livingstone's view, this article estimates the dualistic tendency of spatial studies of science and local studies of scientific knowledge in a framework of coupling of place, region and the globe. Thus the paradigm of scientific research can be expressed as follows: spatial studies of science, regional studies of science, and local studies of scientific knowledge. In this framework, there is certain corresponding relation among the three research fields which are sociology of science, scientific cultural studies and sociology of scientific knowledge. Based on the view that "geography" is the "media" of science, the geographical study of science reveals that scientific activities can achieve coupling in local, regional or global scale, rather than a binary opposition of place and globe.