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Shaping the sciences of the ancient and medieval world
textual criticism, critical editions and translations of scholarly texts in history
%A Keller, Agathe
%A Chemla, Karine
%I Springer
%@ 9783031496165
%K Asian history
%K Asiatische Geschichte
%K Classical texts
%K EDUCATION / History
%K General studies
%K Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften
%K Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie
%K HISTORY / Asia / China
%K HISTORY / Historiography
%K Historiography
%K History of science
%K LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
%K LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General
%K Language: history & general works
%K SCIENCE / History
%K SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
%K Sprache: Geschichte und Allgemeines
%K Texte: Antike und Mittelalter
%K Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften)
%K China
%D [2024]
%D , © 2024
%X "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
%X 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.
%C Springer
%C Cham, Switzerland