Looking at it from Asia
Subtitle: the processes that shaped the sources of history of science
By: edited by Florence Bretelle-Establet
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 265; Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 265.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9789048136759; 9789048136766
Subjects: Historiography; Quelle; Sources; Science; Naturwissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung; Histoire; Historiographie; Sciences; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Formation and administration of the collections of literary and scholarly tables in first millennium Babylonia / Philippe Clancier; title: The textual form of knowledge: occult miscellanies in ancient and medieval Chinese manuscripts, fourth century B.C. to tenth century A.D. / Donald Harper; title: Sanskrit scientific libraries and their uses: examples and problems of the early modern period / Christopher Minkowski; title: The French Jesuit manuscripts on Indian astronomy: the narratology and mystery surrounding a late seventeenth-early eighteenth century project / Dhruv Raina; title: Scientific texts in contest, 1600-1800 / Chu Pingyi; title: A Chinese canon in mathematics and its two layers of commentaries: reading a collection of texts as shaped by actors / Karine Chemla; title: On Sanskrit commentaries dealing with mathematics (fifth-twelfth century) / Agathe Keller; title: Mesopotamian metrological lists and tables: forgotten sources / Christine Proust; title: What shaped our corpuses of astral and mathematical cuneiform texts? / David Brown; title: Knowledge and practice of mathematics in late Ming daily life encyclopedias / Andrea Bréard; title: Is the lower Yangzi river region the only seat of medical knowledge in late imperial China? A glance at the far south region and its medical documents / Florence Bretelle-Establet; title: Imperial science written in Manchu in early Qing China: does it matter? / Catherine Jami; title: Sinification as limitation: Minh Mang's prohibition on use of Nôm and the resulting marginalization of Nôm medical texts / C. Michele Thompson.