Title: Science and empires : historical studies about scientific development and European expansion /
Authors: Petitjean, Patrick.; Jami, Catherine.; Moulin, Anne Marie; Equipe REHSEIS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France))
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Year: 1992
Subjects: Science History Congresses; Science Europe History Congresses.; Science Social aspects Congresses; Science Economic aspects Congresses.; Science history; Colonialism history
Contents: Sciences et empires : un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux / Patrick Petitjean -- Welcome address / Adnan Badran -- For a new historiographical approach of the so-called "traditional knowledge" / Ubiratán D'Ambrosio -- Science classique et science moderne à l'époque de l'expansion de la science européenne / Roshdi Rashed -- Integration problems : introductory report / Francis Zimmermann -- Ottomans and European science / Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu -- The "Oriental-Occidental controversy" of 1839 and its impact on Indian science / A. Vasantha -- The colonial "model" and the emergence of national science in India : 1876-1920 / V.V. Krishna -- Integration problems : discussion / Iyanaga Shokichi [and others] -- Western mathematics in China, seventeenth century and nineteenth century / Catherine Jami -- The reception of Western medicine in China : examples from Yunnan / Elisabeth Hsü --^