The circulation of knowledge between Britain, India and China : the early-modern world to the twentieth century / / edited by Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.
In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China , twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The collection starts by looking at the ways and means that knowledge ci...
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| Superior document: | History of science and medicine library, v. 36 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | History of science and medicine library ;
v. 36. History of science and medicine library. Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; v. 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- The spectacle of experiment : instruments of circulation, from Dumfries to Calcutta and back / Larry Stewart
- "Bungallee House set on fire by Galvanism" : natural and experimental philosophy as public science in a colonial metropolis (1794-1806) / Savithri Preetha Nair
- From Calcutta to London : James Dinwiddie's galvanic circuits / Jan Golinski
- Anthologizing the book of nature : the circulation of knowledge and the origins of the scientific journal in late Georgian Britain / Jonathan R. Topham
- Between Calcutta and Kew : the divergent circulation and production of hortus bengalensis and flora indica / Khyati Nagar
- Knowledge across borders : the early communication of evolution in China / Yang Haiyan
- Circulating material objects : the international controversy over antiquities and fossils in twentieth-century China / Fa-ti Fan
- Going with the flow : Chinese geology, international scientific meetings and knowledge circulation / Grace Yen Shen
- How may we study science and the state in postcolonial India? / Jahnavi Phalkey
- A western scientist in an eastern context : J.B.S. Haldane's involvement in Indian science / Veena Rao
- Implications for history of science / Sundar Sarukkai.