Download or read book Empire and Science in the Making written by P. Boomgaard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on extensive new research, and bringing much new scholarship before English readers for the first time, this wide-ranging volume examines how knowledge was created and circulated throughout the Dutch Empire, and how these processes compared with those of the Imperial Britain, Spain, and Russia.