Narrative accounts of the history of science worldwide from 1500-1800 have.

Narrative accounts of the history of science worldwide from 1500-1800 have, until lately been portrayed mainly through European frames of regard even when comparative themes are inclemencyed Hence, the contested nature of the interaction since 1550 between late imperial Chinese and early new Europeans over the meaning and significance of natural studies is a little known story. These Eurocentric portraits of the rise of recent science, while not monolithic, mainly portray variations of a single-minded historical teleology of Western European scientific "success" and non-Western "failure." Usually the draughts of such accounts reproduce uncritically the story of the seventeenth-century Protestant-based scientific