Dir. Florence Bretelle-Establet
: : Springer, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 265
: : 2010, XLVI
: : 400 p.
: : ISBN : 978-90-481-3675-9
Contents
Part I : 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 ", 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
Part II : Reading Actors’ Collections and Archives, Reading Beyond Collections and Archives That Shaped the Present Day Historiography : New Perspectives on the History of Science in Asia
- " A Chinese Canon in Mathematics and Its Two Layers of Commentaries : Reading a Collection of Texts as Shaped by Actors ", Karine Chemla
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- " 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 at 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 Noˆm and the Resulting Marginalization of Noˆm Medical Texts ", C. Michele Thompson
- Index