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STEP is a multi-national research group focused on the study of processes and models of circulation of scientific and technological knowledge between European centres and peripheries from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. STEP was founded in May 1999, in Barcelona, and gathers more than one hundred from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, etc. STEP organizes thematic meetings to be held biannually. Besides the foundational meeting in Barcelona, four more thematic meetings have taken place in Lisbon, Portugal (Scientific travels); Aegina, Greece (Scientific and technological textbooks); Aarhus, Denmark (Traditions and realities of national historiographies of science); and Mahon, Spain (Scientific and technological popularization in the European periphery). 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Simon Castel, \u201cGanot's textbooks of physics: Translation, the making of the book and the transit of knowledge\u201d; and Vanpaemel G., Van Tiggelen B. \u201cScience for the people: The Belgian Encyclop\u00e9die populaire and the constitution of a national science movement\u201d."},{"key":"bibr39-007327530804600202","unstructured":"Besides the mentioned collective volumes, a recent relevant STEP project on comparative history is \u201cScience and technology in the press: Impressions at the beginning of the twentieth century\u201d. It brings together research teams from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Denmark. 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