The Spread of the Scientific Revolution in the European Periphery, Latin America and East Asia: Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liege, 20-26 July 1997) Vol. V

This volume includes papers presented during a symposium on the spreading of the scientific revolution outside Western European countries, which was held during the XXth International Congress of History of Science in Liege in 1997. The contributions aim to answer some recent historiographical questions such as the modalities of the spreading of science in different countries, the reception of the new science by different cultures, the kind of changes this reception set in motion, the periodisat…