The Japanese and Western Science / / Masao Watanabe.
The Japanese first encountered Western scientific technology around 1543, when the Portuguese drifted ashore and left them firearms. For the next few centuries Japan's policy of national isolation severely limited contact with the West. In the middle of the nineteenth century, when Commodore Pe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (128 p.) :; 45 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Translator's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Japan's Modern Century
- 1. From Samurai to Scientist: Yamagawa Kenjlrō
- 2. Japan Studies of Foreign Teachers in Japan: Investigations of the Magic Mirror
- 3. A Zoologist Fascinated by Japan: Edward Sylvester Morse
- 4. Response to a New Scientific Theory: Darwinism in the Early Meiji Era
- 5. Biology and the Buddhistic View of the Transience of Life: Oka Asajirō
- 6. Modern Science and the Japanese Conception of Nature: A Sketch
- 7. Overall Perspectives: Tasks for Today
- Epilogue to the English Edition
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter