Moving Localities and Creative Circulation: Travels as Knowledge Production in 18th-Century Europe (2014)
Raposo, Pedro M. P. (Author)
Simões, Ana I. (Author)
Patiniotis, Manolis (Author)
Bertomeu Sánchez, José Ramón (Author)
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Volume: 56, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 167-188
In recent historiography of science, circulation has been widely used to weave global narratives about the history of science. These have tended to focus on flows of people, objects and practices rather than investigating the spread of universal patterns of knowledge. The approach has also, to a great extent, concentrated on colonial contexts and treated `European science' as a more or less homogeneous knowledge realm. Furthermore, these studies of circulation have usually been tied to a contextualist view of knowledge formation in which locality is taken as a set of specificities linked with particular locations. In this article we redirect the focus of the discussion on circulation to Europe, and reference spaces that are often absent from other scholarly accounts. We will ground our discussion on a comparative study of three travelling actors from the European periphery through whom we will introduce the notion of `moving locality' in order to depict circulation as a knowledge production process per se.
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