Following the 15^th anniversary of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), one can definitely say that this relatively young society has come of age. Through regular meetings, a journal, a prize, fellowships and various other activities, the ESHS has been striving to create a space fostering diversity, plurality and internationalization among historians of science, located in Europe and elsewhere. This paper revisits my own research on the past of the sciences in Portugal, examining in particular the role of the 18^th century naturalist and diplomat Abbé Correia da Serra. As a member of an extended network of estrangeirados (Europeanized intellectuals), Correia da Serra played a decisive role in the circulation of knowledge in Europe and also in the world, a role forgotten by his peers within the time interval of a generation. This case study acts as a springboard to discuss the importance of geographical and methodological diversity in the past of the sciences in Europe. In the present historiographical predicament in which the international community finds itself, I advocate that one of the main challenges faced by the ESHS is to turn its historical gaze to Europe again, while fiercely repudiating Eurocentrism. This enables to show how much the building of the European spaces of scientific practice were never a prerogative of a few regions or a small set of countries, but, on the very contrary, took shape as the result of complex interactions between diverse spaces and cultures, not only intra‐European but also non‐European.

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回顾前进：对欧洲科学的思考

继15^日欧洲学会科学史（ESHS）的周年纪念日，一个可以肯定地说，这个相对年轻的社会的时代已经来临。通过定期会议，杂志，奖品，研究金和其他各种活动，ESHS一直致力于在欧洲和其他地方的科学史学家之间建立一个促进多样性，多元化和国际化的空间。本文重访在葡萄牙科学的过去我自己的研究，特别是检查18的作用^届世纪博物学家和外交家阿贝·科雷亚·达塞拉。作为estrangeirados扩展网络的成员（欧洲知识分子），科雷亚·达·塞拉（Correia da Serra）在欧洲乃至全世界的知识传播中起着决定性的作用，在一代人的时间间隔内，他的同伴们都忘记了这一作用。该案例研究是讨论欧洲过去科学中地理和方法多样性的重要性的跳板。在国际社会发现的当前史学困境中，我主张，ESHS面临的主要挑战之一是再次将其历史目光转向欧洲，同时强烈反对欧洲中心主义。这可以表明，欧洲的科学实践空间的建设从来都不是少数地区或少数国家的特权，但恰恰相反，