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

Florence Bretelle-Establet

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i-xlvi
Front matter
3-166
Part 1 / Collecting documents: which impact on the material and social life of documentand on historiography?s
3-166
Front matter
3-35
Formation and Administration of the Collections of Literary and Scholarly Tablets in First Millennium Babylonia
37-80
The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, Fourth Century B.C. to Tenth Century A.D.
81-114
Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses: Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period
115-140
The French Jesuit Manuscripts on Indian Astronomy: The Narratology and Mystery Surrounding a Late Seventeenth – Early Eighteenth Century Project
141-166
Scientific Texts in Contest, 1600–1800
169-412
Part 2 / Reading Actors’ Collections And Archives, Reading Beyond Collections AndArchives That Shaped The Present Day Historiography: New Perspectives On TheHistory Of Science In Asia.
169-412
Front matter
169-210
A Chinese Canon in Mathematics and Its Two Layers of Commentaries: Reading a Collection of Texts as Shaped by Actors
211-244
On Sanskrit Commentaries Dealing with Mathematics (Fifth–Twelfth Century)
245-276
Mesopotamian Metrological Lists And Tables:Forgotten Sources
277-303
What Shaped Our Corpuses of Astral and Mathematical Cuneiform Texts?
305-329
Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias
331-369
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
371-391
Imperial Science Written in Manchu in Early Qing China: Does It Matter?
393-412
Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mạng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts
413-426
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About This Book

Title

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

Editor

Florence Bretelle-Establet(1)

Editor Affiliations

CNRS-UMR 7596, Equipe REHSEIS, Université Paris 7, place Jussieu 2, Paris CX 05, 75251 Paris cedex 13, France

Collection

Humanities, Social Sciences and Law

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None Assigned

Copyright Year

2010

DOI

10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6

ISBN

978-90-481-3675-9 (Print) 978-90-481-3676-6 (Online)

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Springer Netherlands

SpringerLink Date

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

About This Book Series

Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Coverage: Volume 129 / 1991 - Volume 291 / 2012
Collection: Not Assigned
Subjects: None Assigned
ISSN: 0068-0346 (Print)
SpringerLink Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2006

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