Amongst the many narrative strategies in the recent “global turn” in the history of science, one commonly finds attempts to complement the single European story by multiplying histories of knowledge-making in as many different regional and cultural contexts as possible. Other strategies include attempts to generalize the “Needham Question” of why the Scientific Revolution occurred only in early-modern Europe to the exclusion of other parts of the world, or to challenge the diffusionist vision of the spread of modern science from Europe by attempting to show that non-European scientific traditions already had an understanding of recent European discoveries. These latter strategies seek simply to pluralize the Scientific Revolution without actually unpacking the latter concept itself.This article seeks firstly to show that the “Scientific Revolution” was in fact a Cold War invention intended to bring the freshly decolonized world into the ambit of the West by limiting the conception of modern science to Europe-specific activities thus delegitimizing other knowledge domains and using the term as a spatially circumscribed chronological marker. Using a broader understanding of scientific activity in the early modern period, and mobilizing relational methodologies, such as circulatory and connected historiographies, the paper then re-examines the well-known history of the Hortus Malabaricus, one of the most celebrated seventeenth-century botanical works, to show the short- and long-range knowledge circulations, intercultural interactions and connections involved in its making to bring out the global nature of scientific activity of the period and illustrate relational approaches to global history.

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没有科学革命的思考：全球互动与知识建构

在最近的科学史“全球转向”的众多叙事策略中，人们通常会发现，通过在尽可能多的不同地区和文化背景下增加知识创造历史来补充单一的欧洲故事。其他策略包括试图概括为什么科学革命只发生在早期现代欧洲的“Needham 问题”而将世界其他地区排除在外，或者通过试图挑战现代科学从欧洲传播的扩散主义观点表明非欧洲科学传统已经了解欧洲最近的发现。后一种策略只是寻求使科学革命多元化，而没有真正解开后一种概念本身。本文首先试图表明，“科学革命”实际上是一项冷战发明，旨在通过将现代科学的概念限制在欧洲特定的活动范围内，从而使其他知识领域和其他知识领域合法化，从而将新近去殖民化的世界带入西方的范围。使用该术语作为空间限定的时间标记。利用对近代早期科学活动的更广泛理解，并运用相关方法论，例如循环史学和关联史学，该论文重新审视了 Hortus Malabaricus 的著名历史，这是 17 世纪最著名的植物学之一。作品，展示短期和长期的知识循环，