Résumé :
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Science Cultivating Practice is an institutional hitory of agricultural science in the Netherlands and its overseas territories. The focus of this study is the variety of views about a proper relationship between science and (agricultural) practice. Such views and plans materialised in the overall organisation of research and education. Besides, the book also provides case studies of genetics and plant breeding in the Netherlands, colonial rice breeding, and agricultural statistics. Ideas affected the organisation as much as the other way round. The net result was an institutional development in which the values of academic science were rated higher than the values of practice. This book distinguisches itself in its treatment of the dynamics of sciences in a European as well as in a colonial context. Theses different ecological and social environments Iead to other forms of knowledge and experimentation as well as other ways of organising science.
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