Book ID: CBB000772388

Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650--1900 (2007)

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Raj, Kapil (Author)


Palgrave Macmillan


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xiii + 285 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “Challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and that it was subsequently diffused elsewhere.” (from the publisher)


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Review Harrison, Mark (2007) Review of "Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650--1900". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 543). unapi

Review Sivasundaram, Sujit (2008) Review of "Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650--1900". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 384). unapi

Review Huff, Toby E. (2011) Review of "Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650--1900". East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (p. 222). unapi

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Akerman, James R.
Bailyn, Bernard
Barak, On
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Coleborne, Catharine
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East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Health and History
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