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A selection of papers from the International Colloquium ""Sciences and Empires - Comparative History of Scientific Exchanges European Expansion and Scientific Development of Asia, Africa, America and Oceania"", held in UNESCO, Paris, April 1990. It raises some historical and epistemological problems related to the integration between classical science and modern science in countries with ancient scientific traditions; to the way modern science crossed cultural borders and took roots outside Europe; to the political strategies followed by European powers for their scientific expansion; and to the possibility of drawing a fruitful general frame for scientific development under colonial and imperial domination. It raises crucial issues about science in its imperial context. Scientific expansion has been a dimension of the sharing of the new world undertaken by European countries since the 19th century after the industrial revolution: which consequences such a context had on the way science was organized and developed outside Europe and which constraints this imperial system laid upon scientific activities and exchanges. This work explores a wide diversity of national situations as well as a variety of disciplines and institutions. It aims to contribute to a better understanding of contemporary problems of scientific development in the light of history of science.

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Author:   P. Petitjean ,  Cathérine Jami ,  A.M. Moulin
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1992 ed.
Volume:   136
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.750kg
ISBN:  

9780792315186

ISBN 10:   0792315189
Pages:   418
Publication Date:   31 December 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Sciences et Empires: un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux.- Welcome Address.- For a New Historiographical Approach of the So-called “Traditional Knowledge”.- Science classique et science moderne à l’époque de l’expansion de la science européenne.- Integration Problems: Introductory Report.- Ottomans and European Science.- The “Oriental-Occidental Controversy” of 1839 and its Impact on Indian Science.- The Colonial “Model” and the Emergence of National Science in India: 1876–1920.- Integration Problems: Discussion.- Western Mathematics in China, Seventeenth Century and Nineteenth Century.- The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan.- Du “zira” au “mètre”: une transformation métrologique dans l’Empire Ottoman.- Models of European Scientific Expansion: a Comparative Description of “Classical” Medical Science at the Time of Introduction of European Medical Science to Sri Lanka, and Subsequent Development to Present.- Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910).- The First Chair of Chemistry in Mexico (1796–1810).- Trade and the Natural Sciences in the United States of Columbia.- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle: la France et le Mexique en perspective.- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil.- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et 1’influence de la tradition française.- Brazilian Museums of Natural History and International Exchanges in the Transition to the 20th Century.- The Pan American Experiment in Eugenics.- Typologie des stratégies d’expansion en sciences exactes.- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure.- World-Science: How Is the History of World-Science toBe Written?.- Science and the Japanese Empire 1868–1945: An Overview.- Science and Nationalism in New Granada on the Eve of the Revolution of Independence.- Models of European Scientific Expansion: the Ottoman Empire as a Source of Evidence.- Problems in Science Administration: a Study of the Scientific Surveys in British India 1757–1900.- Natural History in Colonial Context: Profit or Pursuit? British Botanical Enterprise in India 1778–1820.- The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the New French Empire: Science and Political Economy.- Patriarchal Science: the Network of the Overseas Pasteur Institutes.- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870–1940).- La France et l’émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900–1940).- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l’Université de São Paulo (1934).- Yvon Chatelin.- José Leite Lopes.- Abdur Rahman.- Nakayama Shigeru.- Juan-José Saldaña.- Jean-Jacques Salomon.- José Israël Vargas.- Unpublished Communications.

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