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The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World - Spain, Spanish America and Brazil (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
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The Reception of Darwinism in the Iberian World - Spain, Spanish America and Brazil (Hardcover, 2001 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 221
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I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative
Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972,
only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were
represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had
attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science
countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The
Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The
sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of
science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era.
Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in
looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then
perceived-in order to test the variation that ideas undergo as they
pass from center to periphery. One thing that the comparative study
of the reception of ideas makes abundantly clear, however, is the
weakness of the center/periphery dichotomy from the perspective of
the diffusion of scientific ideas. Catholics in mainstream
countries, for example, did not handle evolution much better than
did their corre1igionaries on the fringes. Conversely, Darwinians
in Latin America were frequently better placed to advance Darwin's
ideas in a social and political sense than were their fellow
evolutionists on the Continent. The Texas meeting was also a marker
in the comparative reception of scientific ideas, Darwinism aside.
Although, by 1972, scientific institutions had been studied
comparatively, there was no antecedent for the comparative history
of scientific ideas.
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