Multicivilizational Exchanges In The Making Of Modern Science
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Multicivilizational Exchanges In The Making Of Modern Science
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Author : Arun Bala
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-09-09
Multicivilizational Exchanges In The Making Of Modern Science written by Arun Bala and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-09 with Social Science categories.
This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today. The dialogical dimension of the history of science has long been marginalized by an excessive concern on why modern science emerged in Europe, but not in any of the advanced civilizations of the East. This focus upon what has been called Joseph Needham's "Grand Comparative Question" ignores his other project, focused on showing how dialogues between civilizations have nurtured science. Needham's "Grand Dialogical Question" – if we may call it that by parity – has directly or indirectly inspired a vast body of literature showing how interconnections of civilizations over the last three thousand years, and exchanges of cosmological, mathematical, geographical, physical, biological and medical technologies, techniques, practices and knowledge, have been woven together to produce current science. Bringing together scholars whose research range across multiple civilizations and disciplines, this book investigates the scope and limits of Needham's dialogical vision for science.
Rethinking The Needham Question
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Author : Raymond W. K. Lau
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-12-24
Rethinking The Needham Question written by Raymond W. K. Lau and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-24 with Social Science categories.
This book offers a new investigation of the Needham Question. Why did modern science emerge in Europe, but not in any of the advanced non-European civilizations? Eurocentric accounts attribute it to certain ‘qualities’ said to be ‘unique’ to Europe. Opposed to the Eurocentric view is a position known as the ‘dialogical perspective’. Dialogism argues that Europe borrowed heavily from non-European scientific knowledges, and that scientific exchanges were key to the development of modern science. Neo-Eurocentric arguments have emerged in response to the challenge of dialogism, and the debate between Eurocentrism/neo-Eurocentrism and dialogism currently stands at a stalemate. In this book, Raymond Lau brings a new theoretical-methodological framework to finally settle this debate. The historical analysis developed here shows that to secure the non-Eurocentric case, and decisively rebut Eurocentrism and neo-Eurocentrism, it is necessary to go beyond dialogism both theoretically and methodologically.
The Rise Of Modern Science Explained
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Author : H. Floris Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-09-24
The Rise Of Modern Science Explained written by H. Floris Cohen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-24 with History categories.
Covers scientific discovery from approximately 1500-1699.--
Multicivilizational Exchanges In The Making Of Modern Science
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Author : Arun Bala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Multicivilizational Exchanges In The Making Of Modern Science written by Arun Bala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Science categories.
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.
The Bright Dark Ages
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Author : Arun Bala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Bright Dark Ages written by Arun Bala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Medicine categories.
The European 'dark ages' in the millennium 500 to 1500 CE was a bright age of scientific achievements in China, India and the Middle East. The contributors to this volume address the implications of this seminal era of Asian science for comparative and connective science studies. Although such studies have generally adopted a binary perspective focusing on one or another of the Asian (Chinese, Indian, Islamic) civilizations, this study brings them together into a single volume within a wider Eurasian perspective. Moreover, by drawing together historical, philosophical, and sociological dimensions into one volume it promotes a richer understanding of how Eurasian connections and comparisons in the millennium preceding the modern era can illuminate the birth and growth of modern science. Contributors are Arun Bala, Andrew Brennan, James Robert Brown, George Gheverghese Joseph, Henrik Lagerlund, Norva Y.S. Lo, Roddam Narasimha, Hyunhee Park, Franklin Thomas Perkins, Hans Pols, Kapil Raj, Sundar Sarukkai, Mohd. Hazim Shah, Geir Sigurðsson and Cecilia Wee.
Cultures In Contact
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Author : Dirk Hoerder
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-21
Cultures In Contact written by Dirk Hoerder and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-21 with Social Science categories.
A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the scope, patterns, and consequences of human migrations over the past ten centuries. In this magnum opus thirty years in the making, Dirk Hoerder reconceptualizes the history of migration and immigration, establishing that societal transformation cannot be understood without taking into account the impact of migrations and, indeed, that mobility is more characteristic of human behavior than is stasis. Signaling a major paradigm shift, Cultures in Contact creates an English-language map of human movement that is not Atlantic Ocean-based. Hoerder describes the origins, causes, and extent of migrations around the globe and analyzes the cultural interactions they have triggered. He pays particular attention to the consequences of immigration within the receiving countries. His work sweeps from the eleventh century forward through the end of the twentieth, when migration patterns shifted to include transpacific migration, return migrations from former colonies, refugee migrations, and distinct regional labor migrations in the developing world. Hoerder demonstrates that as we enter the third millennium, regional and intercontinental migration patterns no longer resemble those of previous centuries. They have been transformed by new communications systems and other forces of globalization and transnationalism.
A History Of Chinese Mathematics
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Author : Jean-Claude Martzloff
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-08-17
A History Of Chinese Mathematics written by Jean-Claude Martzloff and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-17 with Mathematics categories.
This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline that together comprise Chinese mathematics. The book is uniquely accessible, both as a topical reference work, and also as an overview that can be read and reread at many levels of sophistication by both sinologists and mathematicians alike.
The Natural And The Artefactual
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Author : Keekok Lee
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 1999-01-01
The Natural And The Artefactual written by Keekok Lee and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
In this book, philosopher Keekok Lee challenges one of the central assumptions of contemporary environmentalism: that if we could reduce or eliminate pollution we could 'save' the planet without unduly disrupting our modern, industrialized societies. Lee argues instead that the process of modernization, with its attendant emphasis on technological innovation, has fundamentally transformed 'nature' into just another manmade 'artefact.' Ultimately, what needs to be determined is if nature has value above and beyond human considerations, whether aesthetic, spiritual, or biological. This provocative book attempts to reconfigure environmental ethics, positing the existence of two separate ontological categories-the 'natural' and the 'artefactual.' Natural entities, be they organisms or inert matter, are 'morally considerable' because they possess the ontological value of independence, whereas artefacts are created by humans expressly to serve their own interests and ends.
The Postnormal Times Reader
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Author : Ziauddin Sardar
language : en
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Release Date : 2019-01-01
The Postnormal Times Reader written by Ziauddin Sardar and has been published by International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Social Science categories.
IIIT Books-In-Brief Series is a valuable collection of the Institute’s key publications written in condensed form to give readers a core understanding of the main contents of the original. Postnormal times are best defined as ‘an in-between period where old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have yet to be born, and very few things seem to make sense’. or, as Ezio Mauro puts it: ‘we are hanging between the “no longer” and the “not yet” and thus we are necessary unstable –nothing around us is fixed, not even our direction of travel.’ The postnormal times theory attempts to make sense of a rapidly changing world, where uncertainty is the dominant theme and ignorance has become a valuable community. The Postnormal Times Reader is a pioneering anthology of writings on the contradictory, complex and chaotic nature of our era. It covers the origins, theory and methods of postnormal times; and examines a host of issues, ranging from climate change, governance, Middle East to religion and science, from the perspective of postnormal times. By mapping some of the key local and global issues of our transitional age, the Reader suggests a way of navigating our turbulent futures.
International Law In A Transcivilizational World
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Author : Onuma Yasuaki
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-15
International Law In A Transcivilizational World written by Onuma Yasuaki and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with Law categories.
This book adopts a 'trans-civilizational' perspective on the history and development of current West-centric international law.