The history of science in a world of readers
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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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edition Open Access
2020
2019 |
| Colección: | Studies 11: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009439184406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
