TY - BOOK

AU - Keller, Agathe

AU - Chemla, Karine

TI - Shaping the sciences of the ancient and medieval world textual criticism, critical editions and translations of scholarly texts in history

PB - Springer

SN - 9783031496165

KW - Asian history

KW - Asiatische Geschichte

KW - Classical texts

KW - EDUCATION / History

KW - General studies

KW - Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften

KW - Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie

KW - HISTORY / Asia / China

KW - HISTORY / Historiography

KW - Historiography

KW - History of science

KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General

KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General

KW - Language: history & general works

KW - SCIENCE / History

KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

KW - Sprache: Geschichte und Allgemeines

KW - Texte: Antike und Mittelalter

KW - Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften)

KW - China

PY - [2024]

N2 - "This book is the outcome of two successive conferences that were prepared in the context of the ERC project 'Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World (SAW)'" - S. vii

N2 - Chapter 1. Introduction (Karine Chemla and Agathe Keller).- Part I: Ancient Editorial and Cross-Linguistic Practices.- Chapter 2. Before the Library of Babel: On some Very Early Philologers (Piotr Michalowski).- Chapter 3. A Theory of Philological Practice in Early Modern India (Sheldon Pollock).- Part II: What was at Issue in Returning to Ancient Texts in Early Modern and Modern Times?.- Chapter 4. Rethinking the Ancient Mathematical Text: Ming-Qing Scholars' Critical Reflections on The Gnomon of Zhou [Dynasty] (Han Qi).- Chapter 5. The Asiatic Society, the Bibliotheca Indica and Devanagari Pinting in Bengal: The Historical Context of the Editio Princeps of the Nyayabhasya (Alessandro Graheli).- Chapter 6. Editing a Foundational Work on Classical Indian Medicine: The Printed Editions of the Carakasa hita in Context (Karin Preisendanz).- Part III: Shaping Specific Features of Scientific Texts.- Chapter 7. Representing numbers and quantities in editions of mathematical cuneiform texts (Christine Proust).- Chapter 8. Numbers and Quantities in Editions of Economic and Administrative Cuneiform Texts at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. The Case of the Capacity System (Cecile Michel).- Chapter 9. Reduction of Absurdity: Notes on the editorial Transformations of Greek Diagrams (Reviel Netz).- Chapter 10. Editing the Sumerians, How and Why? (Jerrold S. Cooper).- Part IV: Publishing Ancient Mathematical and Astronomical texts: Comparative Perspectives.- Chapter 11. The critical edition of the mathematical texts of Greek Antiquity: challenges and method (Micheline Decorps).- Chapter 12. Shaping a Mathematical text in Sanskrit: H. T. Colebrooke, Sudhakara Dvivedin, and Prthudaka's commentary on the twelfth chapter of the Brahmasphu asiddhanta (Agathe Keller).- Chapter 13. On the First Printed Edition of the Mathematical Book in Nine Chapters (1842) (Yiwen Zhu & Cheng Zheng).- Chapter 14. Babylonian Astronomy: Editing and Interpreting an Ancient Science (Matthieu Ossendrijver).- Chapter 15. Postface (Glenn Most).- Annexure.- Index.

BT - Archimedes ; volume 69

CY - Cham, Switzerland

ER -