Introduction -- PART I: In the ancient world -- 1. Above all with the Greek alphabet -- 2. In Chinese characters -- 3. In the Sanskrit of sacred Indian texts.-4. Not only in Arabic -- 5. Above all in the Latin alphabet -- Appendices.

PART II: In the world of the scientific revolution -- 6. Not only in Latin, but also in Dutch, Chinese, Italian and German -- 7. Beyond Latin, French, English, German, Italian and Flemish: the invention of symbolism -- 8. Between Latin, French, English and German: the language of transcendence -- 9. Between Latin and French -- 10. From French to German -- PART III: It is not even heard -- 11. In the language of the Venusians -- 12. Come on, Apophis -- Bibliography -- Index of names and works.

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Part I. Introduction.
History of computations, computing devices, and mathematics education from the teaching and learning perspective : looking for new paths of investigation / Viktor Freiman and Alexei Volkov

Part II. Middle East, India, Greece, and Byzantine Empire in Antiquity and Middle Ages.
Computation in early Mesopotamia / Duncan J. Melville ; Computational techniques and computational aids in ancient Mesopotamia / Jens Høyrup ; Interpreting tables of the Arithmetical Introduction of Nicomachus through Pachymeres' treatment of arithmetic : preliminary observations / Athanasia Megremi and Jean Christianidis ; The so-called "dust computations" in the Līlāvatī / Takanori Kusuba ; Reading algorithms in Sanskrit : how to relate rule of three, choice of unknown, and linear equation? / Charlotte-V. Pollet

Part III. Far East : China, Korea, Japan. Chinese counting rods : their history, arithmetic operations, and didactic repercussions / Alexei Volkov ; Interpreting algorithms written in Chinese and attempting the reconstitution of tabular setting : some elements of comparative history / Charlotte-V. Pollet ; Same rods, same calculation? Contextualizing computations in early eighteenth-century Korea / Young Sook Oh ; The education of abacus addition in China and Japan prior to the early 20th century / Yifu Chen ; Teaching computation in 19th-century Japan : the transition from individual coaching on traditional devices at the end of the Edo period (1600-1868) to lectures on Western mathematics during the Meiji period (1868-1912) / Marion Cousin

Part IV. Early Modern Europe and Russia. A short history of computing devices from Schickard to de Colmar : emergence and evolution of ingenious ideas and technologies as precursors of modern computer technology / Viktor Freiman and Xavier Robichaud ; Computation devices in nineteenth-century mathematics instruction in Europe / Gert Schubring ; Toward a history of the teaching of calculation in Russia / Alexander Karp

Part V. Conclusion. The unsettling playfulness of computing / Jean-François Maheux ; Calculating aids in mathematics education before the advent of electronic calculators : didactical and technological prospects / Dragana Martinovic.

Index of Technical Terms – Index of Individuals – Index of Primary Materials

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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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