The history of science: from the centre to the periphery

Abstract

Today, science is a social fact of global significance; the countries that have just joined the countries that have recently joined the ranks of nations, progress and development are development seek in some way to appropriate it. This cognitive and cultural This cognitive and cultural process has been labelled expansion or diffusion. The The emergence of science is parallel to and contemporary with another economic and political process, which also and political process also taking place in Western Europe: capitalism. capitalism, which is why it also tends to be associated with it. Thus, from its European matrix, science has spread to other societies, whether they were colonised by Europe or by the rest of the world. whether they were societies that Europe colonised, subjugated or exercised an imperial relationship.
imperial relationship; as it also spread among those societies that wished to be on a par with that
Europe, as in the case of the Russia of Peter the Great; today, its predominance Today its predominance is on a planetary scale. The history of science: from the centre to the periphery