Relocating Modern Science

Relocating Modern Science
Title Relocating Modern Science PDF eBook
Author K. Raj
Publisher Springer
Pages 298
Release 2007-01-05
Genre History
ISBN 0230625312

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Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.

Relocating Modern Science

Relocating Modern Science
Title Relocating Modern Science PDF eBook
Author K. Raj
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 0
Release 2007-01-05
Genre History
ISBN 9780230238503

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Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.

Relocating Modern Science

Relocating Modern Science
Title Relocating Modern Science PDF eBook
Author Kapil Raj
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 288
Release 2007-02-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780230507081

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Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and that it was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, scientific education, and colonial administration, it demonstrates the crucial roles of intercultural encounter and circulation for their emergence. It engages with questions central to imperial, colonial, and South Asian history and presents a heuristic model for other world regions, periods, and fields of knowledge, as also for transnational and global studies.

Relocating the History of Science

Relocating the History of Science
Title Relocating the History of Science PDF eBook
Author Theodore Arabatzis
Publisher Springer
Pages 376
Release 2015-05-19
Genre Science
ISBN 3319145533

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This volume is put together in honor of a distinguished historian of science, Kostas Gavroglu, whose work has won international acclaim, and has been pivotal in establishing the discipline of history of science in Greece, its consolidation in other countries of the European Periphery, and the constructive dialogue of these emerging communities with an extended community of international scholars. The papers in the volume reflect Gavroglu’s broad range of intellectual interests and touch upon significant themes in recent history and philosophy of science. They include topics in the history of modern physical sciences, science and technology in the European periphery, integrated history and philosophy of science, historiographical considerations, and intersections with the history of mathematics, technology and contemporary issues. They are authored by eminent scholars whose academic and personal trajectories crossed with Gavroglu’s. The book will interest historians and philosophers of science and technology alike, as well as science studies scholars, and generally readers interested in the role of the sciences in the past in various geographical contexts.

Hidden Histories of the Dead

Hidden Histories of the Dead
Title Hidden Histories of the Dead PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth T. Hurren
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 321
Release 2021-02-25
Genre Medical
ISBN 1108484093

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Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research. This title is also available as Open Access.

The Royal Society

The Royal Society
Title The Royal Society PDF eBook
Author Adrian Tinniswood
Publisher Basic Books
Pages 172
Release 2019-06-04
Genre History
ISBN 154167376X

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An engaging new history of the Royal Society of London, the club that created modern scientific thought Founded in 1660 to advance knowledge through experimentally verified facts, The Royal Society of London is now one of the preeminent scientific institutions of the world. It published the world's first science journal, and has counted scientific luminaries from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking among its members. However, the road to truth was often bumpy. In its early years-while bickering, hounding its members for dues, and failing to create its own museum-members also performed sheep to human blood transfusions, and experimented with unicorn horns. In his characteristically accessible and lively style, Adrian Tinniswood charts the Society's evolution from poisoning puppies to the discovery of DNA, and reminds us of the increasing relevance of its motto for the modern world: Nullius in Verba-Take no one's word for it.

A Companion to the History of Science

A Companion to the History of Science
Title A Companion to the History of Science PDF eBook
Author Bernard Lightman
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 629
Release 2019-11-11
Genre Science
ISBN 1119121140

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the History of Science is a single volume companion that discusses the history of science as it is done today, providing a survey of the debates and issues that dominate current scholarly discussion, with contributions from leading international scholars. Provides a single-volume overview of current scholarship in the history of science edited by one of the leading figures in the field Features forty essays by leading international scholars providing an overview of the key debates and developments in the history of science Reflects the shift towards deeper historical contextualization within the field Helps communicate and integrate perspectives from the history of science with other areas of historical inquiry Includes discussion of non-Western themes which are integrated throughout the chapters Divided into four sections based on key analytic categories that reflect new approaches in the field