ABSTRACT Recent historiographies of ‘Science and Empire’ have successfully critiqued older euro-centric narratives. They highlighted how science was ‘co-produced’ through interactions between knowledgeable European and non-European actors in colonial ‘contact zones’, and how this ‘pidginised knowledge’ circulated through networks across various sites within the British Empire. This article shares and expands this approach. By focussing on continental European scholars in Ceylon around 1900, it argues that scientific networks were never confined to a particular empire. Science among Europeans was, rather, multi-lingual, mostly cross-disciplinary and always transimperial. Applying such an approach to the history of science in late colonial Ceylon allows us to uncover entanglements between historical processes that have for too long remained subject matters of disconnected historiographies: the emergence of Buddhist revivalism, evolutionary theories about human origins, the transformation from ‘liberal race science’ to Nazi eugenics in Germany, and the surfacing of British cultural anthropology.

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从拜蒂克洛经巴塞尔到柏林。1900 年左右锡兰及其他地区的跨帝国科学

摘要 最近的“科学与帝国”史学成功地批判了旧的以欧洲为中心的叙事。他们强调了科学是如何通过殖民“接触区”中知识渊博的欧洲和非欧洲行为者之间的互动“共同生产”的，以及这种“小知识”如何通过大英帝国内各个地点的网络传播。本文分享并扩展了这种方法。通过关注 1900 年左右在锡兰的欧洲大陆学者，它认为科学网络从未局限于特定的帝国。相反，欧洲人的科学是多语言的，主要是跨学科的，而且总是跨帝国的。