The circulation of knowledge between Britain, India and China the early-modern world to the twentieth century / [electronic resource] :
edited by Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- xxi, 339 p. : ill. (some col.).
- History of science and medicine library, v. 36 1872-0684 ; Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; v. 3 .
- History of science and medicine library ; v. 36. History of science and medicine library. Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; v. 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Discoveries in science--History.
Communication in science--History.--Europe
Science--History.--Great Britain
Science--History.--India
Science--History.--China
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Enlightenment.
Electronic books.
Q126.8 / .C56 2013eb
303.48/30903
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Discoveries in science--History.
Communication in science--History.--Europe
Science--History.--Great Britain
Science--History.--India
Science--History.--China
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Enlightenment.
Electronic books.
Q126.8 / .C56 2013eb
303.48/30903