The history of science in a world of readers /

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

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...

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Superior document:Studies 11: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
:
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).
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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.

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