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Title The circulation of knowledge between Britain, India and China [electronic resource] : the early-modern world to the twentieth century / edited by Bernard Lightman, Gordon McOuat and Larry Stewart.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description xxi, 339 p. : ill. (some col.).
Series History of science and medicine library, 1872-0684 ; v. 36
Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; v. 3
History of science and medicine library ; v. 36. 1872-0684
History of science and medicine library. Knowledge infrastructure and knowledge economy ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Discoveries in science -- History.
Communication in science -- Europe -- History.
Science -- Great Britain -- History.
Science -- India -- History.
Science -- China -- History.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Enlightenment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lightman, Bernard V., 1950-
McOuat, Gordon.
Stewart, Larry, 1946-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004244412 (hardback : alk. paper)
9789004251410 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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