Multicivilizational exchanges in the making of modern science : Needham's dialogical vision / Arun Bala, Raymond W. K. Lau, Jianjun Mei, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balasubramaniam, Arun, editor.

Lau, Raymond W. K., editor.

Mei, Jianjun, editor.

EBSCOhost

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 452 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 1:Historical Sociology in Dialogue

Chapter 2. An Oceanic Paradigm of Historical Flows

Chapter 3. The Needham Question: A Non-Eurocentric Approach Transcending Dialogism

Chapter 4. The Need to Extend Needham's Vision of Science: A Decolonial Perspective

Part 2: Cosmologies in Dialogue

Chapter 5.The Circulation of Babylonian Astral Science

Chapter 6. Scientific Exchanges with Qing China and the Formation of a Local Science in Eighteenth-Century Korea

Chapter 7. Practical and "Precise" World Geographical Knowledge Developed in Premodern Chinese and Islamic Worlds through Multi-Civilizational Connections and Contact

Part 3: Natural Sciences in Dialogue

Chapter 8. Liberating Mathematics from Civilizations

Chapter 9. Ancient Chinese Origins of Modern Western Science; or, The Early History of Linear Algebra

Chapter 10. Ibn al-Haytham's Optics and European Perspectiva Legacies in Science and Art

Chapter 11. The Survival of Old Book Forms on the Periphery: Chinese Book Forms in Dunhuang and Beyond

Part 4: Medical Traditions in Dialogue

Chapter 12. Healing Traditions and Medicinal Products in the Market of Health, Healing, Beauty, and Vigor in the Dutch East Indies

Chapter 13. Needham's Legacy in Clinical Research Revisited: Refashioning Acupuncture with Biomedicine

Chapter 14. Classical Chinese Medicine and The Needham Question

Part 5: Modes of Inquiry in Dialogue

Chapter 15. Mathematics in India: Pluralism and the Possibility of Dialogue

Chapter 16. Explaining the Rise of Modern Science: A Dialogical Perspective

Chapter 17. Webs, Trees and Knowledge: Bunzo Hayata's Eastern Perspectival Model of Nature

Chapter 18. Dialogue and Comparison Compared.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 19, 2024).

ISBN:

9789819735419

9819735416

Publisher Number:

90102289129

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Restricted for use by site license.