ISBN:
9789048136766
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XLVI, 400p, digital)
Series Statement:
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 265
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Looking at it from Asia
Keywords:
Science History
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History
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Library science
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Humanities
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Science, general
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Science History
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History
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Library science
;
Humanities
;
Science
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Asia
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History
;
Sources
;
Science
;
Asia
;
Historiography
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Asien
;
Wissenschaft
;
Geschichte
;
Asien
;
Wissenschaft
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Quelle
Abstract:
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 historians and that were eventually taken as sources in the historiography of science, some had been well studied while others had been dismissed or ignored. This observation will seem obvious to historians, whose daily work consists in shaping corpuses to raise new questions. The diagnosis has long been established that such selections related to the historians' agenda and thereby reflected the ways in which historiography somehow belonged to its time. Yet, it appeared to us that this diagnosis was insufficient and that the selective consideration of source material was also at least partly related to mechanisms of selection that occurred upstream from the historian's classical work of shaping a corpus. Therefore, we came to the idea that, in order to write, or to rewrite, chapters in the history of science, historians may benefit from relying on a critical analysis of the factors that, along history, shaped the documents that have become their sources or the collections from which they constitute their corpuses. It is to the development of such a branch of critical analysis in the history of science, to its methods and to its benefits to be illustrated in carefully chosen case studies , that we suggest to devote a collective research and a book. We want to inquire into how the corpuses we form incorporate long sequences of selections and reorganizations that took place in history and that must be brought to light if we do not want various types of actors of the past to carve their choices and conceptions into our questions and conclusions.
Description / Table of Contents:
Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Graphs; About the Authors; Introduction: How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectivesfrom Asia and Science; From Documents to Sources in Historiography; An Issue Addressed Within the Context of Science and Asia; The Organization of the Book; The Material and Social Life of Documents and Their Impact on the Historiography of Science in Asia; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1: Collecting Documents: Which Impact on the Material and Social Life of Documents and on Historiography?Formation and Administration of the Collections of Literary and Scholarly Tablets in First Millennium Babylonia; Introduction; Libraries in the First Millennium B.C.; The Establishment of Reference Works and the Emergence of Libraries; The Library: A Problematic Definition; Scholars in Babylonia; The Institutions That Housed the Libraries; The Purpose of the Collections; Teaching; Professional Practice; The Library of the Lamentation-Priests of the Bimacrt Remacrscaron
Description / Table of Contents:
Preservation of the Astronomical TextsPatrimonial and Encyclopaedic Preservation; The Temple Library; The Palace Libraries and the Library of the Esagil; Formation and Dynamism; The Enrichment of the Collections; The Physical Organization of the Libraries; Conclusion; References; The Textual Form of Knowledge: Occult Miscellanies in Ancient and Medieval Chinese Manuscripts, Fourth Century B.C. to Tenth Century A.D.; Manuscript Miscellanies; Textual Continuity in Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts; Form and Function of Manuscript Miscellanies; Occult Knowledge and Three Medieval Works
Description / Table of Contents:
Wuxing Dayi (Summation of the Five Agents)Yisi zhan (Yisi-Year Divination) and Kaiyuan zhanjing (Divination Classic of [the reign] Opened Epoch); Conclusion; References; Sanskrit Scientific Libraries and Their Uses: Examples and Problems of the Early Modern Period; Introduction; The Problematic; The Application in the Case of India-Three Questions; Background; Pre-modern Sanskrit Sciences and their Sources; Modern Research Collections and their History-``Report of a Tour''; What the Collectors Wanted to Do; What They Could Do In Fact; On the Problem of Indian Modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Early Modern South AsiaWhat the Collectors Found; Jealousy Revisited; Three Early Modern Sanskrit Collections; Vyas-Weisz; History of the Collection; Description of the Collection; Practices; Summary; Toro; Era and Context; Vedic Practices; Non-sacuterauta Features; Summary; Anumacrpa; On Being Comprehensive; On Being Early Modern; The Use of the Collection; New Works Commissioned; Uses of the Library; Comparison with Vyas and Toro; Conclusion; References
Description / Table of Contents:
The French Jesuit Manuscripts on Indian Astronomy: The Narratology and Mystery Surrounding a Late Seventeenth - Early Eighteenth Century Project
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6
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