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1 online resource |
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Science and Religion in East Asia ; 1 |
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Science and religion in East Asia ; 1.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts; part 1; Science and Confucian Scholars ; chapter 1; Zhu Xi on Nature and Science*; chapter 2; 'Analogical Extension' (leitui) in Zhu Xi's Methodology of 'Investigation of Things' (gewu) and 'Extension of Knowledge' (zhizhi)*; chapter 3; Ideas about the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing's Heaven's Work in Opening Things (Tiangong kaiwu): 'Natural Theology of Industry' in Seventeenth-Century China?*; chapter 4 ; Science and the Confucian Tradition in the Work of Chŏng Yak-yong*; part 2 |
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Social and Cultural Contexts of Science in East Asia chapter 5; Problems in the Study of the History of Chinese Science: An Early Review of the Field*; chapter 6; Confucian Scholars and Specialized Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Traditional China, 1000-1700*; chapter 7; Science and Religion in Traditional China*; chapter 8; Science and Bureaucracy in Traditional China*; part 3; Comparative Problems in the History of Science; in East Asia ; chapter 9; The 'Why Not' Question of Chinese Science: The Scientific Revolution and Traditional Chinese Science*; chapter 10 |
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The Ideas of the Earth's Rotation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century East Asia: Independent Development, Transmission from the West, and Chinese Forerunners*chapter 11; Problem of Meiji Japan in the History of Science in East Asia*; chapter 12; The Problem of China in the Study of the History of Korean Science: Korean Science, Chinese Science, and East Asian Science* ; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book 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 Confucian thought, values, and institutions have on the development of science. Kim shows that this relationship is very complex and multifaceted, and cannot be dealt with in a simplistic manner. Kim offers comparative perspectives and discusses the problems of intercultural comparisons; he demonstrates that in spite of the potential dangers that accompany these comparisons, they should be made nonetheless as they allow for a better understanding of the situation in East Asia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Science -- East Asia -- History
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Science -- History -- Cross-cultural studies
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Civilization -- Confucian influences
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Science
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| SUBJECT |
East Asia -- Civilization -- Confucian influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95004942
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| Subject |
East Asia
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004265318 |
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9004265317 |
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1306407222 |
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9781306407229 |
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