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The History of Science of Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Trevor H. Levere
Trevor H. Levere
Affiliation:
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S 1K7, Canada
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Canada as a Neo-Europe is a relatively recent construct, although the people of its first nations, the Indians and Inuit, have been here for some twelve thousand years, since the beginning of the retreat of the last ice sheets. Western science came in a limited way with the first European explorers; Samuel de Champlain left a mariner's astrolabe behind him. The Jesuits followed with their organization and educational institutions, and from the eighteenth century science was established within European Canadian culture.

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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , December 1988 , pp. 419 - 425
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1988

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