Sivasundaram Sujit
Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, England.
Isis. 2010 Mar;101(1):146-58. doi: 10.1086/652694.
This essay explores the mechanics of researching and writing globally oriented histories of science. Thinking about how to approach sources is vital, especially given how often historians of science use the excuse of a lack of sources for constraining their projects to European topics. The first section suggests a method of cross-contextualization, where scarce and unorthodox sources are read within and alongside more plentiful and traditional ones. The next section considers historiography, critiquing the continuing hold of the terms "colonial" and "national" in current work that aspires to be more global. The final section considers practice and network theory, asking whether the way we utilize these tools in fact returns us, instinctively, to European and Eurocentric ways of conceiving how science works.
本文探讨了研究和撰写面向全球的科学史的方法。思考如何获取资料至关重要，尤其是考虑到科学史家常常以缺乏资料为由，将他们的研究项目局限于欧洲主题。第一节提出了一种跨语境化的方法，即在阅读丰富且传统的资料时，同时阅读稀缺和非正统的资料。下一节讨论了史学编纂，批评了当前那些渴望更具全球性的研究中，“殖民”和“民族”等术语仍持续存在的影响。最后一节探讨了实践和网络理论，思考我们使用这些工具的方式是否实际上会本能地让我们回到以欧洲和欧洲中心主义的方式来理解科学的运作。
