Circulations savantes entre l'Europe et le monde

"The study of the construction of European identity must be considered in terms of the circulation of knowledge, ideas and practices produced in scientific, technical or cultural fields and transferred between European and extra-European areas. This book offers an illumination by means of various case studies, with a voluntarily long temporal perspective: the techniques of sugar refining in the seventeenth century, geometry and astronomy transmitted in Islamic countries in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the practices of the experimental sciences in the nineteenth-century charm, the processes of synthesizing ammonia along the ligerian valley in the 1950s, or the development in the twentieth century of disciplinary fields embodied institutionally or by militant practices." --Translated from back cover.