Travels of Learning. A Geography of Science in Europe

Sinopse

Travels have without doubt been a perennial source of attraction to scholars in different fields. Yet historians of science have seldom looked at travels within the European space. Travels of Learning will help to fill this gap. It offers a reappraisal of the topic of scientific and technological travelling and takes the viewpoint of the European peripheries, including case studies of Portugal, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Hungary and the Scandinavian countries. The book covers different periods of time and different local settings, and uses a variety of methodological approaches. It contributes to the clarification of mechanisms of appropriation of scientific ideas, instruments, practices and of technological expertise.

Índice (Inglês)

• Notes on contributors, p. vii
• Preface, p. xiii
• Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, Travels of Learning. Introductory Remarks, p. 1-18
• Henrique Leitão, A Periphery between Two Centers? Portugal in the Scientific Route from Europe to China, p. 19-46 
• Manolis Patiniotis, Scientific Travels of the Greek Scholars in the Eighteenth Century, p. 47-76
• Berna Kılınç, Yirmisekiz Mehçed Çelebi's Travelogue and the Wonders that make a Scientific Center, p. 77-100
• Rhodri Hayward, Emmanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-1791): A Case Study in Scientific Reputation, p. 101-114
• Brian Dolan, Embodied Skills and Travelling Savants: Experimental Chemistry in Eighteenth-Century Sweden and England, p. 115-142
• Antonio García Belmar, José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, Constructing the Centre from the Periphery: Spanish Travellers to France at the Time of the Chemical Revolution, p. 143-188
• Agustí Nieto-Galan, Under the Banner of Catalan Industry. Scientific Journeys and Technology Transfer in Nineteenth-Century Barcelona, p. 189-212
• Irina Gouzévitch, Dmitri Gouzévitch, Travelling Interchanges between the Russian Empire and Western Europe: Travels of Engineers during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, p. 213-232
• Marco Segala, Babbage, the Analytical Engine and the Turin Academy of Sciences, p. 233-248
• Ana Carneiro, Dores Areias, Vanda Leitão, Luís Teixeira Pinto, The Role of Travels in the Internationalisation of Nineteenth-Centruy Portuguese Geological Science, p. 249-297
• Timo Myllyntaus, Discovering Switzerland: Internationalisation of Nordic Students prior to World War II, p. 299-328
• Gábor Palló, Accommodation to a New Centre: Albert Szent-Györgyi's Trip to the Soviet Union, p. 329-344
• Index, p. 345.