The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment

The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of `reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the...

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Other Authors: Gavroglu, K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Constructing Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the New Sciences
  • The Sciences in the Greek Speaking Regions during the 17th and 18th Centuries
  • The Images of Science in Modern Spain
  • Dante’s Bones
  • The Spread of Precision Measurement in Scandinavia 1660–1800