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Looking at it from Asia : the processes that shaped the sources of history of science
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Looking at it from Asia : the processes that shaped the sources of history of science

Author: Florence Bretelle-Establet
Publisher: Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2010.
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 265.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The idea for this volume took shape within a group of scholars working on the history of science in Asia. The subject area is unique and the book can be used as supplemental reading for the history of  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Florence Bretelle-Establet
ISBN: 9789048136759 904813675X 9789048136766 9048136768
OCLC Number: 449849863
Description: xlvi, 426 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Formation and administration of the collections of literary and scholarly tables in first millennium Babylonia / Philippe Clancier --
The textual form of knowledge: occult miscellanies in ancient and medieval Chinese manuscripts, fourth century B.C. to tenth century A.D. / Donald Harper --
Sanskrit scientific libraries and their uses: examples and problems of the early modern period / Christopher Minkowski --
The French Jesuit manuscripts on Indian astronomy: the narratology and mystery surrounding a late seventeenth-early eighteenth century project / Dhruv Raina --
Scientific texts in contest, 1600-1800 / Chu Pingyi --
A Chinese canon in mathematics and its two layers of commentaries: reading a collection of texts as shaped by actors / Karine Chemla --
On Sanskrit commentaries dealing with mathematics (fifth-twelfth century) / Agathe Keller --
Mesopotamian metrological lists and tables: forgotten sources / Christine Proust --
What shaped our corpuses of astral and mathematical cuneiform texts? / David Brown --
Knowledge and practice of mathematics in late Ming daily life encyclopedias / Andrea Bréard --
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 --
Imperial science written in Manchu in early Qing China: does it matter? / Catherine Jami --
Sinification as limitation: Minh Mang's prohibition on use of Nôm and the resulting marginalization of Nôm medical texts / C. Michele Thompson.
Series Title: Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 265.
Responsibility: edited by Florence Bretelle-Establet.

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