A global enlightenment : Western progress and Chinese science /  Alexander Statman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The death of Voltaire's Confucius -- The ex-Jesuit mission in China -- The origins of esotericism -- The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism -- The invention of Eastern wisdom.

"A Global Enlightenment is a book about the idea of Western progress, told through a series of conversations about Chinese science. Its protagonists - an ex-Jesuit missionary, a French statesman, a Manchu prince, Chinese literati, European savants, and other figures of the late Enlightenment world - exchanged ideas across cultures. In telling their stories here, Alexander Statman shows how Chinese science shaped a signature legacy of the European Enlightenment: the idea of Western progress. By focusing on the orphans of the Enlightenment, those who sought to vindicate ancient wisdom as others left it behind, Statman reveals that ideas about the uniqueness of the West - and the mystery, inscrutability, or otherness of the East - did not follow from the Enlightenment idea of progress but had to be invented. The orphans of the Enlightenment believed that the knowledge of the past and the East still had value for modern Europe, and their efforts to recover and explain it, in turn, uncover an unknown story of European engagement with Chinese science. In contrast to the common view, that over the course of the Enlightenment non-Western ideas were banished from European thought, Statman found that the opposite is true. Toward the end of the Enlightenment, Europeans only grew more interested in Chinese science, and this has had lasting effects, from the eighteenth century to today"-- Provided by publisher.

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What is a Text? -- Spatial Organization of Ancient Chinese Texts (Preliminary Remarks) -- The Constitution of Scientific Texts: from Draft to -- Leibniz and the Use of Manuscripts: Text as Process -- Opera Omnia: The Production of Cultural Authority -- Writing Works: A Reaction to Michael Cahn's Paper -- How Scientific and Technical Texts Adhere to Local Cultures -- Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China -- The Algebraic Art of Discourse Algebraic Dispositio, Invention and Imitation in Sixteenth-Century France -- Ancient Sanskrit Mathematics: An Oral Tradition and a Written Literature -- Reading Texts -- The Limits of Text in Greek Mathematics -- Reading Strasbourg 368: A Thrice-Told Tale -- What is the Content of This Book? A Plea for Developing History of Science and History of Text Conjointly -- Epilogue -- Knowledge and its Artifacts.

This book explores the hypothesis that the types of inscription or text used by a given community of practitioners are designed in the very same process as the one producing concepts and results. The book sets out to show how, in exactly the same way as for the other outcomes of scientific activity, all kinds of factors, cognitive as well as cultural, technological, social or institutional, conjoin in shaping the various types of writings and texts used by the practitioners of the sciences. To make this point, the book opts for a genuinely multicultural approach to the texts produced in the context of practices of knowledge. It is predicated on the conviction that, in order to approach any topic in the history of science from a theoretical point of view, it may be fruitful to consider it from a global perspective. The book hence does not only gather papers dealing with geometrical papyri of antiquity, sixteenth century French books in algebra, seventeenth century scientific manuscripts and paintings, eighteenth and nineteenth century memoirs published by European academies or scientific journals, and Western Opera Omnia. It also considers the problems of interpretation relating to reading Babylonian clay tablets, Sanskrit oral scriptures and Chinese books and illustrations. Thus it enables the reader to explore the diversity of forms which texts have taken in history and the wide range of uses they have inspired. This volume will be of interest to historians, philosophers of science, linguists and anthropologists.

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Intellectual curiosity and the scientific revolution : a global perspective /  Toby E. Huff.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-339) and index.

I. Something new under the sun -- Introduction -- Inventing the discovery machine -- The new telescopic evidence -- The "far seeing looking glass" goes to China -- The discovery machine goes to the Muslim world -- pt. II. Patterns of education -- Three ideals of higher education : Islamic, Chinese, and Western -- pt. III. Science unbound -- Infectious curiosity I : anatomy and microbiology -- Infectious curiosity II : weighing the air and atmospheric pressure -- Infectious curiosity III : magnetism and electricity -- Prelude to the grand synthesis -- The path to the grand synthesis -- The scientific revolution in comparative perspective -- Epilogue : science, literacy, and economic development

"Seventeenth-century Europe witnessed an extraordinary flowering of discoveries and innovations. This study, beginning with the Dutch-invented telescope of 1608, casts Galileo's discoveries into a global framework. Although the telescope was soon transmitted to China, Mughal India, and the Ottoman Empire, those civilizations did not respond as Europeans did to the new instrument. In Europe, there was an extraordinary burst of innovations in microscopy, human anatomy, optics, pneumatics, electrical studies, and the science of mechanics. Nearly all of those aided the emergence of Newton's revolutionary grand synthesis, which unified terrestrial and celestial physics under the law of universal gravitation. That achievement had immense implications for all aspects of modern science, technology, and economic development. The economic implications are set out in the concluding epilogue. All these unique developments suggest why the West experienced a singular scientific and economic ascendancy of at least four centuries"--  Provided by publisher.

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Introduction / Feza Günergun and Dhruv Raina
PART I. ON TECHNOLOGIES -- Reflections on the Transmission and Transformation of Technologies: Agriculture, Printing and Gunpowder between East and West / Christopher Cullen -- The Ottoman Empire and the Technological Dialogue Between Europe and Asia: The Case of Military Technologyand Know-How in the Gunpowder Age / Gabor Agoston -- General Observations on the Ottoman Military Industry, 1774-1839: Problems of Organization and Standardization / Kahraman Şakul -- Cultural Attitudes and Horse Technologies: A View on Chariots and Stirrups from the Eastern End of the Eurasian Continent / Nanny Kim
PART II. ON MAPS, ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS, CLOCKS AND CALENDARS -- Patchwork-The Norm of Mapmaking Practices for Western Asia in Catholic and Protestant Europe As Well As in Istanbul Between 1550 and 1750? / Sonja Brentjes -- The Ottoman Ambassador's Curiosity Coffer: Eclipse Prediction with De La Hire's "Machine" Crafted by Bion of Paris / Feza Günergun -- The Clockmaker Family Meyer and Their Watch Keeping the alla turca Time / Atilla Bir, Şinasi Acar, and Mustafa Kaçar -- The Adoption and Adaptation of Mechanical Clocks in Japan / Takehiko Hashimoto -- Adoption and Resistance: Zhang Yongjing and Ancient Chinese Calendrical Methods / Pingyi Chu
PART III. ON LOCALIZING, APPROPRIATING AND TRANSLATING NEW KNOWLEDGE -- Travelling Both Ways: The Adaptation of Disciplines, Scientific Textbooks and Institutions / Dhruv Raina -- Between Translation and Adaptation: Turkish Editions of Ganot's Traite / Meltem Akbaş -- Eclecticism and Appropriation of the New Scientific Methods by the Greek-Speaking Scholars in the Ottoman Empire / Manolis Patiniotis
PART IV. ON MEDICINE AND MEDICAL PRACTICES -- Conveying Chinese Medicine to Seventeenth-Century Europe / Harold J. Cook -- Adoption and Adaption: A Study of Medical Ideas and Techniques in Colonial India / Deepak Kumar -- How Electricity Energizes the Body: Electrotherapeutics and its Analogy of Life in the Japanese Medical Context / Akiko Ito -- What is 'Islamic' in Islamic Medicine? An Overview / Hormoz Ebrahimnejad -- Index.

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