Questioning science in East Asian contexts : : essays on science, Confucianism, and the comparative history of science / / by Yung Sik Kim.
Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts brings together twelve essays written by Yung Sik Kim addressing various questions about the social and cultural contexts of science in East Asia. Most of the essays deal with the relationship between science and Confucianism, especially the roles that Conf...
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| Superior document: | Science and religion, volume 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science and religion ;
v. 1. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 pages). |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1. Zhu Xi on Nature and Science
- 2. ‘Analogical Extension’ (leitui) in Zhu Xi’s Methodology of ‘Investigation of Things’ (gewu) and ‘Extension of Knowledge’ (zhizhi)
- 3. Ideas about the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing’s Heaven’s Work in Opening Things (Tiangong kaiwu)
- 4. Science and the Confucian Tradition in the Work of Chŏng Yak-yong
- 5. Problems in the Study of the History of Chinese Science
- 6. Confucian Scholars and Specialized Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Traditional China, 1000-1700
- 7. Science and Religion in Traditional China
- 8. Science and Bureaucracy in Traditional China
- 9. The ‘Why Not’ Question of Chinese Science
- 10. The Ideas of the Earth’s Rotation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century East Asia: Independent Development, Transmission from the West, and Chinese Forerunners
- 11. Problem of Meiji Japan in the History of Science in East Asia
- 12. The Problem of China in the Study of the History of Korean Science
- Bibliography
- Index.