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Sciences et Empires: un thème promètteur, des enjeux cruciaux.- Welcome Address.- For a New Historiographical Approach of the So-called “Traditional Knowledge”.- Science classique et science moderne à l’époque de l’expansion de la science européenne.- Integration Problems: Introductory Report.- Ottomans and European Science.- The “Oriental-Occidental Controversy” of 1839 and its Impact on Indian Science.- The Colonial “Model” and the Emergence of National Science in India: 1876–1920.- Integration Problems: Discussion.- Western Mathematics in China, Seventeenth Century and Nineteenth Century.- The Reception of Western Medicine in China: Examples from Yunnan.- Du “zira” au “mètre”: une transformation métrologique dans l’Empire Ottoman.- Models of European Scientific Expansion: a Comparative Description of “Classical” Medical Science at the Time of Introduction of European Medical Science to Sri Lanka, and Subsequent Development to Present.- Technical Content and Social Context: Locating Technical Institutes. The First Two Decades in the History of the Kala Bhavan, Baroda (1890–1910).- The First Chair of Chemistry in Mexico (1796–1810).- Trade and the Natural Sciences in the United States of Columbia.- Science et pouvoir au XIXe siècle: la France et le Mexique en perspective.- Le positivisme et la science au Brésil.- Les débuts de la physique mathématique et théorique au Brésil et 1’influence de la tradition française.- Brazilian Museums of Natural History and International Exchanges in the Transition to the 20th Century.- The Pan American Experiment in Eugenics.- Typologie des stratégies d’expansion en sciences exactes.- Sciences exactes et politique extérieure.- World-Science: How Is the History of World-Science toBe Written?.- Science and the Japanese Empire 1868–1945: An Overview.- Science and Nationalism in New Granada on the Eve of the Revolution of Independence.- Models of European Scientific Expansion: the Ottoman Empire as a Source of Evidence.- Problems in Science Administration: a Study of the Scientific Surveys in British India 1757–1900.- Natural History in Colonial Context: Profit or Pursuit? British Botanical Enterprise in India 1778–1820.- The Société Zoologique d’Acclimatation and the New French Empire: Science and Political Economy.- Patriarchal Science: the Network of the Overseas Pasteur Institutes.- Géographie et colonisation en France durant la Troisième République (1870–1940).- La France et l’émergence des sciences modernes au Canada français (1900–1940).- Autour de la mission française pour la création de l’Université de São Paulo (1934).- Yvon Chatelin.- José Leite Lopes.- Abdur Rahman.- Nakayama Shigeru.- Juan-José Saldaña.- Jean-Jacques Salomon.- José Israël Vargas.- Unpublished Communications.

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