Subject: Science--Asia--History--Congresses

Science and empires : historical studies about scientific development and European expansion
AuthorJami, CatherinePetitjean, PatrickMoulin, Anne MarieEquipe REHSEIS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France))
PlaceDordrecht ; Boston
PublisherKluwer Academic Publishers
CollectionRicci Institute Library
Edition
LanguageEnglish, French
TypeDigital Book (PDF)
SeriesBoston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 136
ShelfDigital Archives
Call NumberQ174.S25 1992d
Descriptionpdf. [xiii, 411 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.]
NoteScience and empires : historical studies about scientific development and European expansion / edited by Patrick Petitjean, Catherine Jami, and Anne Marie Moulin.
Papers from an international colloquium organized by the REHSEIS group (Research on Epistemology and History of Exact Sciences and Scientific Institutions) of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) and held April 3-6, 1990 at the UNESCO building in Paris.
English and French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sciences et empires : un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux / Patrick Petitjean -- Welcome address / Adnan Badran -- For a new historiographical approach of the so-called "traditional knowledge" / Ubiratán D'Ambrosio -- Science classique et science moderne à l'époque de l'expansion de la science européenne / Roshdi Rashed -- Integration problems : introductory report / Francis Zimmermann -- Ottomans and European science / Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu -- The "Oriental-Occidental controversy" of 1839 and its impact on Indian science / A. Vasantha -- The colonial "model" and the emergence of national science in India : 1876-1920 / V.V. Krishna -- Integration problems : discussion / Iyanaga Shokichi [and others] -- Western mathematics in China, seventeenth century and nineteenth century / Catherine Jami -- The reception of Western medicine in China : examples from Yunnan / Elisabeth Hsü -- Du "zira" au "mètre" : une transformation métrologique dans l'Empire Ottoman / Feza Günergun -- 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 / A. de Zoysa and C.D. Palitharatna -- Technical content and social context : locating technical institutes. The first two decades in the history of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890-1910) / Dhruv Raina and S. Irfan Habib -- The first chair of chemistry in Mexico (1796-1810) / Patricia Aceves -- Trade and the natural sciences in the United States of Colombia / Diana Obregón -- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle : la France et le Mexique en perspective / Juan-José Saldaña -- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil / Maria Amelia M. Dantes -- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et l'influence de la tradition française / Michel Paty -- Brazilian museums of natural history and international exchanges in the transition to the 20th century / Maria-Margaret Lopes -- The Pan American experiment in eugenics / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Typologie des stratégies d'expansion en sciences exactes / Lewis Pyenson -- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure / Brigitte Schroeder-Gudehus -- World-science : how is the history of world-science to be written? / Xavier Polanco -- Science and the Japanese empire 1868-1945 : an overview / Sasaki Chikara -- Science and nationalism in New Granada on the eve of the revolution of independence / Luis Carlos Arboleda -- Models of European scientific expansion : the Ottoman Empire as a source of evidence / Alberto Elena -- Problems in science administration : a study of the scientific surveys in British India 1757-1900 / Deepak Kumar -- Natural history in colonial context : profit or pursuit? British botanical enterprise in India 1778-1820 / Satpal Sangwan -- The Société Zoologique d'Acclimatation and the new French empire : science and political economy / Michael A. Osborne -- Patriarchal science : the network of the overseas Pasteur Institutes / Anne Marie Moulin -- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870-1940) / Daniel Dory -- La France et l'émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900-1940) / Raymond Duchesne -- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l'Université de São Paulo (1934) / Patrick Petitjean -- Final round table : "Science et développement : une politique scientifique peut-elle tirer on enseignement de l'histoire des sciences?" / Yvon Chatelin [and others].

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