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53Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of ScienceIsis 104 (2): 337-347. 2013.This essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist history of science in a world-historical context. While the scholars who fostered the postcolonial approach, in dealing with modern science in the non-West, espoused an idealist vision, they nevertheless stressed its political and ideological underpinnings and engaged with the question of its putative Western roots. The postidealist history of science developed its own vision with respect to…Read more
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38Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of ScienceIsis 104 (2): 337-347. 2013.
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30Este artigo recupera o papel dos cartógrafos indianos na construção da ciência cartográfica britânica e a maneira como o saber-fazer local (ainda que em contexto colonial) se projectou na metrópole. Mostra-se, assim, como a ciência cartográfica na Índia antecipou em larga medida as realizações então em curso na Grã-Bretanha. À noção passiva de difusão, substituem-se as noções mais activas, de recepções, de representações e de apropriações historicamente situadas. Com este estudo sobre cartografi…Read more
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26David Arnold. Science, Technology, and Medicine in Colonial India. xii + 234 pp., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. $60 (review)Isis 94 (3): 530-532. 2003.
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20Introduction: circulation and locality in early modern scienceBritish Journal for the History of Science 43 (4): 513-517. 2010.
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17Images of Knowledge, Social Organization, and Attitudes to Research in an Indian Physics DepartmentScience in Context 2 (2): 317-339. 1988.The ArgumentSociologists of Third World science, who share the dominant assumption in the philosophy of science that the “culture” of specific substantive fields of scientific inquiry is invariant across the globe, have, after a period of blind optimism devoted to building a critical mass of scientists in the developing countries, relapsed into a bleaker mood and see the Third World as a peripheral region lacking in “creativity” in its research programs.Challenging the doctrine of the universali…Read more
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15Beyond science and empire: circulation of knowledge in an age of global empires, 1750-1945 (edited book)Routledge. 2023.Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology. The book will interest scholars and undergraduate and graduate students concerned with the connections between the history of science, imperial history, and global history.
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10Henry J. Noltie, Robert Wight and the Botanical Drawings of Rungiah and Govindoo. 3 vols. Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2008. Pp. 215, 208 and 88. ISBN 978-1-906129-02-6. £75.00 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 42 (4): 606. 2009.
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10Hermeneutics and cross-cultural communication in Science : The reception of Western Scientific Ideas in 19th-Century IndiaRevue de Synthèse 107 (1-2): 107-120. 1986.
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Science and empires : past and present questionsIn Matheus Alves Duarte Da Silva, Thomás A. S. Haddad & Kapil Raj (eds.), Beyond science and empire: circulation of knowledge in an age of global empires, 1750-1945, Routledge. 2023.
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History of science, intellectual history, and the world, 1900-2020In Stefanos Geroulanos & Gisèle Sapiro (eds.), The Routledge handbook in the history and sociology of ideas, Routledge. 2023.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |