The orientation of science and technology : a Japanese view : collected papers of Shigeru Nakayama.

• Superior document: The collected papers of twentieth-century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 3
• Author: Nakayama, Shigeru.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Notes: Collected papers of Shigeru Nakayama.

One of the most distinguished science historians of the twentieth century, Shigeru Nakayama has been at the forefront of redirecting or ‘reorientating’ conventional East Asian science and technology, arguing, like Joseph Needham, that the ‘orientation of science’ refers not only to the direction of science but also implies a turning to Eastern science. In recent times, he has been arguing for implementation of a ‘Service Science’,which is linked to the rights and needs of mankind. A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, he majored in astrophysics at the University of Tokyo and wrote on the history of astronomy for his PhD and later on the history of science for his Harvard PhD.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / S. Nakayama -- 1. The First Appearance Of Aristotelian Cosmology In Japan, Kenkon Bensetsu / S. Nakayama -- 2. On The Introduction Of The Heliocentric System Into Japan / S. Nakayama -- 3. Japanese Studies In The History Of Astronomy / S. Nakayama -- 4. Abhorrence Of ‘God’ In The Introduction Of Copernicanism Into Japan / S. Nakayama -- 5. Cyclic Variation Of Astronomical Parameters And The Revival Of Trepidation In Japan / S. Nakayama -- 6. The Role Played Universities In Scientific Technological Development In Japan / S. Nakayama -- 7. Diffusion Of Copernicanism In Japan / S. Nakayama -- 8. Grass-Roots Geology – Ijiri Shoji And The Chidanken / S. Nakayama -- 9. Problems Of The Professionalization Of Science In Late-Nineteenth-Century Japan / Shigeru Nakayama and Masao Terasaki -- 10. History Of Science: A Subject For The Frustrated / S. Nakayama -- 11. Science And Technology In Modern Japanese Development / S. Nakayama -- 12. Public Science In The Modernization Of Japan / S. Nakayama -- 13. Japanese Scientific Thought / S. Nakayama -- 14. The Future Of Research – A Call For A ‘Service Science’ / S. Nakayama -- 15. The Transplantion Of Modern Science To Japan / S. Nakayama -- 16. The American Occupation And The Science Council Of Japan / S. Nakayama -- 17. Independence And Choice: Western Impacts On Japanese Higher Education / S. Nakayama -- 18. Human Rights And The Structure Of The Scientific Enterprise / S. Nakayama -- 19. History Of East Asian Science: Needs And Opportunities / S. Nakayama -- 20. The Chinese ‘Cyclic’ View Of History Vs. Japanese ‘Progress’ / S. Nakayama -- 21. The Ideogram Versus The Phonogram In The Past, Present And Future / S. Nakayama -- 22. Preface And Historical Introduction To ‘A Social History Of Science And Technology In Contemporary Japan’ / S. Nakayama -- 23. The Scientific Community Post-Defeat / S. Nakayama -- 24. Overcoming The Digital Divide Between Phonetic And Ideographic Languages / S. Nakayama -- 25. Eighteenth-Century Science: Japan / S. Nakayama -- 26. Technology In History: Japan / S. Nakayama -- 27. Colonial Science: An Introduction / S. Nakayama -- 28. Thomas Kuhn: A Historian’s Personal Recollections / S. Nakayama -- Bibliography / S. Nakayama -- Index / S. Nakayama.