The history of science in a world of readers / / Dagmar Schäfer, Angela N. H. Creager (editors).

• Superior document: Studies 11: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
• Author: Angela N. H. Creager
• TeilnehmendeR: Schäfer, Dagmar,; Creager, Angela N. H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Germany : : Edition Open Access,, 2019
• Year of Publication: 2020; 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Studies 11: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (189 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

What role should historians of science, technology, and medicine have in communicating their own body of literature—its methods and concerns—across linguistic boundaries? This anthology is a proactive response to this question. As the West and the East become ever more closely related through travel, trade, and—not least—the globalization of knowledge, the seven essays in this volume should stimulate new engagements between English and Chinese readers on the centrality of science, technology, and medicine for our histories and our future. A wider selection of influential literature published in English since 1990 has been translated into Chinese and published in China in a companion volume. The series Studies of the Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge is dedicated to key subjects in the history and development of knowledge, bringing together perspectives from different fields and combining source-based empirical research with theoretically guided approaches. Studies typically present working group volumes with integrative approaches. The volumes are available both as print-on-demand books and as open-access publications on the Internet. The material is freely accessible online at www.edition-open-access.de.

Table of Contents

History of Science in a World of Readers: Frames of References for Global Exchange / Angela N. H. Creager, Dagmar Schäfer -- 1. The Openness of Knowledge: An Ideal and Its Context in 16th-Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy / Pamela O. Long -- 2. Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France / Gabriele Hecht -- 3. Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China: An Essay in the Cultural History of Technology / Francesca Bray -- 4. Deuteronomic Texts: Late Antiquity and the History of Mathematics / Reviel Netz -- 5. The Possession of Kuru: Medical Science and Biocolonial Exchange / Warwick Anderson -- 6. Knowledge in Transit / James A. Secord -- 7. Peasant Friendly Plant Breeding and the Early Years of the Green Revolution in Mexico / Jonathan Harwood -- Acknowledgments.