History of Science, History of Text

This book explores the hypothesis that the types of inscription or text used by a given community of practitioners are designed in the very same process as the one producing concepts and results. The book sets out to show how, in exactly the same way as for the other outcomes of scientific activity,...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Chemla, Karine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
Σειρά:Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 238
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • What is a Text?
  • Spatial Organization of Ancient Chinese Texts (Preliminary Remarks)
  • The Constitution of Scientific Texts: from Draft to
  • Leibniz and the Use of Manuscripts: Text as Process
  • Opera Omnia: The Production of Cultural Authority
  • Writing Works: A Reaction to Michael Cahn’s Paper
  • How Scientific and Technical Texts Adhere to Local Cultures
  • Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China
  • The Algebraic Art of Discourse Algebraic Dispositio, Invention and Imitation in Sixteenth-Century France
  • Ancient Sanskrit Mathematics: An Oral Tradition and a Written Literature
  • Reading Texts
  • The Limits of Text in Greek Mathematics
  • Reading Strasbourg 368: A Thrice-Told Tale
  • What is the Content of This Book? A Plea for Developing History of Science and History of Text Conjointly
  • Epilogue
  • Knowledge and its Artifacts.