Modern science was not finished in Europe and then shipped to the rest of the world. Its knowledge took shape in the meetings between people of different cultures, so the colonies were places where science was made, not just where it was received.
Even knowledge counted as objective is tangled up in relationships between people, including unequal ones like those between rulers and the ruled. To understand how a fact came to exist, follow the people and connections that produced and carried it.
Moving knowledge from one place to another is not a neutral delivery of a finished product. The act of circulating, translating and passing knowledge between groups is itself where that knowledge gets constructed and changed.