Travels of learning
Subtitle: a geography of science in Europe
By: edited by Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, and Maria Paula Diogo.
Contributors: Simões, Ana.; Carneiro, Ana.; Diogo, Maria Paula.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 233
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Communication in science -- Europe -- History.; Knowledge, Sociology of.; Europe -- Description and travel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Travels of learning: introductory remarks / Ana Simões, Ana Carniero, and Maria Paula Diogo; title: A periphery between two centres?: Portugal in the scientific route from Europe to China / Henrique Leitõ; title: Scientific travels of the Greek scholars in the eighteenth century / Manolis Patiniotis; title: Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi's travelogue and the wonders that make a scientific centre / Berna Kilinç; title: Emmanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-1791): a case study in scientific reputation / Rhodri Hayward; title: Embodied skills and travelling savants: experimental chemistry in eighteenth-century Sweden and England / Brian Dolan; title: Constructing the centre from the periphery: Spanish travellers to France at the time of the chemical revolution / Antonio García Belmar, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez; title: Under the banner of Catalan industry: scientific journeys and technology transfer in nineteenth-century Barcelona / Agustí Nieto-Galan; title: Travelling interchanges between the Russian empire and Western Europe: travels of engineers during the first half of the nineteenth century / Irina Gouzévitch and Dmitri Gouzévitch; title: Babbage, the analytical engine and the Turin academy of sciences / Marco Segala; title: The role of travels in the internationalisation of nineteenth-century Portuguese geological science / Ana Carniero ... [et al.]; title: Discovering Switzerland: internationalisation of Nordic students prior to World War II / Timo Myllyntaus; title: Accommodation to a new centre: Albert Szent-Györgyi's trip to the Soviet Union / Gábor Palló.