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For an extended version of this article, see Jonardon Ganeri, “Well-Ordered Science and Indian Epistemic Cultures,” Isis 2013, 104: 348–359. Springer thanks the University of Chicago Press for permission to reproduce this abridgement.

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Ganeri, J. (2013). Polycentered History of Science. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10008-1

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