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Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800

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Empire and Science in the Making

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Early modern science had been crucial to European expansion. A constant series of new accomplishments in cartography, maritime technology, the art of warfare, and the like preceded and accompanied Western colonialism. While much of this technological progress may have been one-directional, European exploration and settlement in faraway continents also stimulated the further development of metropolitan science. As will become evident from this chapter, the Dutch case is no exception to this rule.

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Oostindie, G. (2013). Intellectual Wastelands? Scholarship in and for the Dutch West Indies up to ca. 1800. In: Boomgaard, P. (eds) Empire and Science in the Making. Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137334022_11

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