Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science
Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

Author: Florence Bretelle-Establet

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-06-16

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9048136768

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How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed is general in scope. It emerged from reflections on a problem that may seem common to historians: why, among the huge mass of written documents available to historians, some have been well studied while others have been dismissed or ignored? The question of historical sources and their (unequal) use in historiography is not new. Which documents have been used and favored as historical sources by historians has been a key historiographical issue that has occupied a large space in the historical production of the last four decades, in France at least.

History of the Mathematical Sciences
History of the Mathematical Sciences

Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-12-15

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 9386279169

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Papers presented at the International Conference on History of Mathematical Sciences, held at New Delhi during 20-23 December 2001.

A History of Geometrical Methods
A History of Geometrical Methods

Author: Julian Lowell Coolidge

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-02-27

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 0486158535

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Full and authoritative, this history of the techniques for dealing with geometric questions begins with synthetic geometry and its origins in Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics; reviews the contributions of China, Japan, India, and Greece; and discusses the non-Euclidean geometries. Subsequent sections cover algebraic geometry, starting with the precursors and advancing to the great awakening with Descartes; and differential geometry, from the early work of Huygens and Newton to projective and absolute differential geometry. The author's emphasis on proofs and notations, his comparisons between older and newer methods, and his references to over 600 primary and secondary sources make this book an invaluable reference. 1940 edition.