Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science Knowledge Crossing
This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions
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ASIA, EUROPE, AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE
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List of Figures
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction Arun Bala
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Part I Toward Dialogical History 1. Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism John M. Hobson
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2. A Passage to Infinity: The Contribution of Kerala to Modern Mathematics George Gheverghese Joseph
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3. Copernicus, Arabic Science, and the Scientific (R)evolution Michal Kokowski
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4. Time Atomism and Ash‘arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism Revisited Richard T. W. Arthur
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5. Pramanas, Proofs, and the Yukti of Classical Indic Scie
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