Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries

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Bringing together essays from leading thinkers across the sciences and humanities, this ground-breaking volume explores the role Asian knowledge traditions played in the rise of mo dern European science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and the question of whether pre-modern Asian traditions can aid in advancing future scientific knowledge. Included here are contributions covering a wide range of Asian cultures, which allow a richer, better-contextualized perspective on different scientific traditions while providing insights into cross-cultural knowledge transmission and intellectual reappropriation. Refer to this link for list of supported app: Click here! Buy by Chapter (individual chapters fulfilled in digital format) Preliminary pages with Introduction PART I: TOWARD DIALOGICAL HISTORY 1. Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism 2. A Passage to Infinity: The Contribution of Kerala to Modern Mathematics 3. Copernicus, Arabic Science, and the Scientific (R)evolution 4. Time Atomism and Ash‘arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism Revisited 5. Pramanas, Proofs, and the Yukti of Classical Indic Science PART II: SCIENCE, RATIONALITY, AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE 6. Traditional Knowledge and the Smallpox Eradication Campaign 7. The Dialogical Copernican Revolution: Implications for Scientific Method 8. How Indigenous are "Indigenous Sciences"? The Case of "Islamic Sciences" 9. The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Rise of Modern Science 10. Science, Technology, and Civilization Reconsidered PART III: FORGING NEW KNOWLEDGE 11. Toward Constructing Post-postmodern Twenty-First Century Sciences: The Relevance of Classical Chinese Medicine 12. Diverse Cultural Contributions to a "Science of Religion": An Emerging Asia-Europe Dialogue on the Scientific Study of Religion 13. Reclaiming Tradition: Implications of a Knowledge Indigenization Perspective for Asian Education 14. Southeast Asia's Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae Author Index Subject Index Subjects:CivilizationNumber of Pages: 282Imprint: ISEAS / Palgrave MacmillanPublication Date: 41374Format: PB Show more