In the fifty years since publication of George Basalla’s ‘The Spread of Western Science’, historians of science have wavered between securely locating knowledge production in specific settings and trying to explain how scientific concepts and practices travel and come to appear universally applicable. As science has come to seem ever more ‘situated’ and fragmented, we struggle to explain its obvious mobility and reproducibility. No single analytic framework seems plausibly to explain the globalization of science.

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记住西方科学的传播

自乔治·巴萨拉 (George Basalla) 的《西方科学的传播》(The Spread of Western Science) 出版 50 年来，科学史家在将知识生产安全地定位于特定环境与试图解释科学概念和实践如何传播并变得普遍适用之间犹豫不决。随着科学变得越来越“定位”和支离破碎，我们努力解释其明显的流动性和可重复性。似乎没有一个单一的分析框架可以合理地解释科学的全球化。