TY - BOOK AU - Lightman,Bernard V. AU - McOuat,Gordon AU - Stewart,Larry TI - The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China: the Early-Modern World to the Twentieth Century T2 - Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy SN - 9789004251410 AV - Q126.8 .C56 2013 U1 - 303.4830903 PY - 2013/// CY - Leiden PB - BRILL KW - Discoveries in science KW - History KW - Communication in science KW - Europe KW - Science KW - Great Britain KW - India KW - China KW - Knowledge, Sociology of KW - Enlightenment KW - Découvertes scientifiques KW - Histoire KW - Information scientifique KW - Sciences KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Inde KW - Chine KW - Sociologie de la connaissance KW - Siècle des Lumières KW - sociology of knowledge KW - aat KW - Enlightenment (18th-century western movement) KW - SCIENCE KW - Philosophy & Social Aspects KW - bisacsh KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING KW - Social Aspects KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface: The Dalhousie University James Dinwiddie Collection; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part One Circulating Knowledge: James Dinwiddie in China, India, and Britain; The Spectacle of Experiment: Instruments of Circulation, from Dumfries to Calcutta and Back; "Bungallee House set on fire by Galvanism": Natural and Experimental Philosophy as Public Science in a Colonial Metropolis (1794-1806); From Calcutta to London: James Dinwiddie's Galvanic Circuits; Part Two Circulation Beyond Dinwiddie; Bringing Eastern Science to the West: Portuguese Voyages of Intellectual DiscoveryAnthologizing the Book of Nature: The Origins of the Scientific Journal and Circulation of Knowledge in Late Georgian Britain; Between Calcutta and Kew: The Divergent Circulation and Production of Hortus Bengalensis and Flora Indica; Part Three The Circulation of Evolution, Geology, and Antiquities in China; Knowledge Across Borders: The Early Communication of Evolution in China; Circulating Material Objects: The International Controversy Over Antiquities and Fossils in Twentieth-Century China; Going with the Flow: Chinese Geology, International Scientific Meetings and Knowledge CirculationPart Four Building Science in Modern India; How May We Study Science and the State in Postcolonial India?; A Western Scientist in an Eastern Context: J.B.S. Haldane's Involvement in Indian Science; Part Five Conclusion; Translation as Method: Implications for History of Science; Index N2 - In The Circulation of Knowledge Between Britain, India and China, twelve scholars examine how knowledge, things and people moved within, and between, the East and the West from the early modern period to the twentieth century UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=603866 ER -