Abstract
How can we grasp the strong singularity of science and technology in Europe today ? Taking a long view of history, we explore the emergence of an epistemological, institutional and linguistic identity for the Europe of science and technology, from Greek antiquity to the European Union. A laboratory of innovation, Europe has been the crucible of numerous scientific and technical revolutions, which have never made it a closed citadel, but rather an intellectual space open to the world. European scientists have long enriched their work through the circulation and appropriation of other scholarly cultures. This global dimension is fully recognized by current research by historians of science. Taking into account this historiographical evolution, this paper will seek to re-establish the originality of the trajectory of science and technology in Europe. How does this distant European experience today lead scientists to encounter the sciences of tomorrow ?
