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Travels of Learning

A Geography of Science in Europe

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Ana Simões

    1. University of Lisbon, Portugal

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  2. Ana Carneiro

    1. New University of Lisbon, Portugal

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  3. Maria Paula Diogo

    1. New University of Lisbon, Portugal

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 233)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Travels of Learning

    • Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo
    Pages 1-18

  3. A Periphery between Two Centres?

    • Henrique Leitão
    Pages 19-46

  4. Scientific Travels of the Greek Scholars in the Eighteenth Century

    • Manolis Patiniotis
    Pages 47-75

  5. Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi’s Travelogue and the Wonders that Make a Scientific Centre

    • Berna Kilinç
    Pages 77-100

  6. Emmanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–1791)

    • Rhodri Hayward
    Pages 101-114

  7. Embodied Skills and Travelling Savants

    • Brian Dolan
    Pages 115-141

  8. Constructing the Centre from the Periphery

    • Antonio García Belmar, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez
    Pages 143-188

  9. Under the Banner of Catalan Industry

    • Agustí Nieto-Galan
    Pages 189-212

  10. Travelling Interchanges between the Russian Empire and Western Europe

    • Irina Gouzevitch, Dmitri Gouzevitch
    Pages 213-231

  11. Babbage, the Analytical Engine and the Turin Academy of Sciences

    • Marco Segala
    Pages 233-247

  12. The Role of Travels in the Internationalisation of Nineteenth Century Portuguese Geological Science

    • Ana Carneiro, Dores Areias, Vanda Leitão, Luís Teixeira Pinto
    Pages 249-297

  13. Discovering Switzerland

    • Timo Myllyntaus
    Pages 299-328

  14. Accommodation to a New Centre

    • Gábor Palló
    Pages 329-344

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 345-365
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About this book

The idea behind this book grew out of a research project launched by the international group STEP (Science and Technology in the European Peripheries), established in 1999 by historians of science from Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Sweden and Denmark. The aim has been to re-examine the historical, and we might also add, the geographical character of science and technology and their institutions in regions and societies within Europe, usually outside mainstream historical analysis. The intended activities of the group have been framed by the following issues: reconsidering the "centre-periphery" model which has been the dominant model in studies on the transfer of scientific knowledge; bringing to the fore the concept of scientific appropriation and attempting to study the construction of various local discourses; systematically examining the relationship between science, politics and the rhetoric of modernisation in societies in the European periphery; joining forces to find out more about scientific travels; using networks to further understand the dynamics and role of scholars on societies in the periphery of Europe; intensifying efforts to catalogue and make available to the international community the archival material in the peripheral countries (http://www. cc. uoa. gr/step, on page 2). As a result of these programmatic guidelines, a meeting was held in Lisbon in September 2000 in which the topic of scientific travels was used as a particularly good unifying theme on which to base a discussion of case studies involving the European peripheries.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Simões

  • New University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo

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