The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment

by Kostas Gavroglu and Jed Z. Buchwald

The articles in this volume of ARCHIMEDES examine particular cases of 'reception' in ways that emphasize pressing historiographical and methodological issues. Such issues arise in any consideration of the transmission and appropriation of scientific concepts and practices that originated in the several 'centers' of European learning, subsequently to appear (often in considerably altered guise) in regions at the European periphery. They discuss the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792355482
• ISBN13: 9780792355489
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"