Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

The idea of this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. Despite the great differences in time, locations and disciplines between our respective fields of research, we all faced similar situations: among the huge mass of written documents available to...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bretelle-Establet, Florence (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Σειρά:Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 265
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Collecting documents: which impact on the material and social life of documentand on historiography?s
  • Formation and Administration of the Collections of Literary and Scholarly Tablets in First Millennium Babylonia
  • The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, Fourth Century B.C. to Tenth Century A.D.
  • Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses: Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period
  • The French Jesuit Manuscripts on Indian Astronomy: The Narratology and Mystery Surrounding a Late Seventeenth – Early Eighteenth Century Project
  • Scientific Texts in Contest, 1600–1800
  • Reading Actors’ Collections And Archives, Reading Beyond Collections AndArchives That Shaped The Present Day Historiography: New Perspectives On TheHistory Of Science In Asia.
  • A Chinese Canon in Mathematics and Its Two Layers of Commentaries: Reading a Collection of Texts as Shaped by Actors
  • On Sanskrit Commentaries Dealing with Mathematics (Fifth–Twelfth Century)
  • Mesopotamian Metrological Lists And Tables:Forgotten Sources
  • What Shaped Our Corpuses of Astral and Mathematical Cuneiform Texts?
  • Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias
  • Is the Lower Yangzi River Region the Only Seat of Medical Knowledge in Late Imperial China? A Glance at the Far South Region and at Its Medical Documents
  • Imperial Science Written in Manchu in Early Qing China: Does It Matter?
  • Sinification as Limitation: Minh M?ng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts.