Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 - Couverture rigide

Raj, K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230507085 ISBN 13 : 9780230507081

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

Synopsis

Relocating Modern Science 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. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Drawing on recent scholarship in the history and sociology of science, as well as in imperial and colonial history, Relocating Modern Science challenges both the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and the assumption that it was subsequently diffused, or imposed, elsewhere. Through six chronologically ordered case studies of knowledge construction in botany, cartography, terrestrial surveying, linguistics, scientific education, and colonial administration at key moments in their history, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of intercultural encounter -- here between South Asians and Europeans -- for the emergence of these sciences. It also revisits questions at the heart of research in the social studies of science -- interpersonal trust, replicability, calibration, translation, and the relationship between instruments and embodied skills -- showing the complex nature of their resolution in multicultural, and colonial, contexts. By following practitioners, skills, instruments, and ideas as they moved between continents and communities, this book stresses the crucial role of circulation in the construction and reconfiguration of scientific notions and practices. In addition to engaging with questions central to imperial, colonial, and South Asian history, Relocating Modern Science presents a heuristic model for specialists of other contact zones, periods, and fields of knowledge, as also for transnational and global studies.

Biographie de l'auteur :

KAPIL RAJ teaches at the Aecole des Hautes Aetudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and is a member of the Centre Alexandre Koyre for the History of Science. He has published extensively on knowledge construction through processes of intercultural encounter and is currently working on a book on the urban and intellectual dynamics of Calcutta in the 18th century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0230507085
• ISBN 13: 9780230507081
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 285