Gavroglu K. (ed.) The Sciences in the European Periphery During the Enlightenment

Springer, 1999. — 224 pp. — (Archimedes, Vol. 2)The articles in this volume 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 transfer of new scientific ideas, the mechanisms of their introduction, and the processes of their appropriation at the periphery. The themes that frame the discussions of the complex relationship between the origination of ideas and their reception include the ways in which the ideas of the Scientific Revolution were introduced, the particularities of their expression in each place, the specific forms of resistance encountered by these new ideas, the extent to which such expression and resistance displays national characteristics, the procedures through which new ways of dealing with nature were made legitimate, and the commonalities and differences between the methods developed by scholars for handling scientific issues.Constructing Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Portugal and the New Sciences (by Ana Simoes, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo).
Sciences in the Greek Speaking Regions during the 17th and 18th Centuries (by Dimitris Dialetis, Kostas Gavroglu, Manolis Patiniotis).
The Images of Science in Modem Spain (by Agusti Nieto-Galan).
Dante's Bones (by Luigi Cerruti).
The Spread of Precision Measurement in Scandinavia 1660-1800 (by Arne Hassenbruch).