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245 1 0 _aHistory of Science, History of Text
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_cedited by Karine Chemla.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2005.
300 _aXXVIII, 266 p.
_bonline resource.
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490 1 _aBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ;
_v238
505 0 _aWhat is a Text? -- Spatial Organization of Ancient Chinese Texts (Preliminary Remarks) -- The Constitution of Scientific Texts: from Draft to -- Leibniz and the Use of Manuscripts: Text as Process -- Opera Omnia: The Production of Cultural Authority -- Writing Works: A Reaction to Michael Cahn’s Paper -- How Scientific and Technical Texts Adhere to Local Cultures -- Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China -- The Algebraic Art of Discourse Algebraic Dispositio, Invention and Imitation in Sixteenth-Century France -- Ancient Sanskrit Mathematics: An Oral Tradition and a Written Literature -- Reading Texts -- The Limits of Text in Greek Mathematics -- Reading Strasbourg 368: A Thrice-Told Tale -- What is the Content of This Book? A Plea for Developing History of Science and History of Text Conjointly -- Epilogue -- Knowledge and its Artifacts.
520 _aThis book explores the hypothesis that the types of inscription or text used by a given community of practitioners are designed in the very same process as the one producing concepts and results. The book sets out to show how, in exactly the same way as for the other outcomes of scientific activity, all kinds of factors, cognitive as well as cultural, technological, social or institutional, conjoin in shaping the various types of writings and texts used by the practitioners of the sciences. To make this point, the book opts for a genuinely multicultural approach to the texts produced in the context of practices of knowledge. It is predicated on the conviction that, in order to approach any topic in the history of science from a theoretical point of view, it may be fruitful to consider it from a global perspective. The book hence does not only gather papers dealing with geometrical papyri of antiquity, sixteenth century French books in algebra, seventeenth century scientific manuscripts and paintings, eighteenth and nineteenth century memoirs published by European academies or scientific journals, and Western Opera Omnia. It also considers the problems of interpretation relating to reading Babylonian clay tablets, Sanskrit oral scriptures and Chinese books and illustrations. Thus it enables the reader to explore the diversity of forms which texts have taken in history and the wide range of uses they have inspired. This volume will be of interest to historians, philosophers of science, linguists and anthropologists.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aMathematics.
650 0 _aAnthropology.
650 1 4 _aHistory.
650 2 4 _aHistory, general.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Mathematical Sciences.
650 2 4 _aAnthropology.
700 1 _aChemla, Karine.
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776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ;
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2321-9
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950 _aHumanities, Social Sciences and Law (Springer-11648)
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