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Looking at it from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science A B3

Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

VOLUME 265 Editors ROBERT S. COHEN, Boston University JU¨RGEN RENN, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science KOSTAS GAVROGLU, University of Athens

Editorial Advisory Board THOMAS F. GLICK, Boston University ADOLF GRU¨NBAUM, University of Pittsburgh SYLVAN S. SCHWEBER, Brandeis University JOHN J. STACHEL, Boston University MARX W. WARTOFSKY†, (Editor 1960–1997)

Advisory Board KARINE CHEMLA, CNRS, REHSEIS & University Paris Diderot, France CATHERINE JAMI, CNRS, REHSEIS & University Paris Diderot, France AGATHE KELLER, CNRS, REHSEIS & University Paris Diderot, France CHRISTINE PROUST, CNRS, REHSEIS & University Paris Diderot, France

For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5710

Looking at It from Asia: The Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

Edited by Florence Bretelle-Establet REHSEIS, SPHERE, UMR 7219 CNRS & U. Paris Diderot, France

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Editor Florence Bretelle-Establet REHSEIS, SPHERE, UMR 7219 CNRS & U. Paris Diderot Case 7093, 5 rue Thomas Mann 75205 Paris cedex 13 France

With the assistance of the editorial board composed of K. Chemla, C. Jami, A. Keller, and C. Proust

ISBN 978-90-481-3675-9 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3676-6 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926129 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Acknowledgements

This volume is one of the results of a collaborative project that started in 2003 between a small group of historians working on the history of science in ancient and early modern Asia and sharing a common interest in the issues of the historiography of science. This project began as a collective reflection on the question of the unequal treatment written documents had undergone in the historiography of science in Asia. The financial support provided by the French Ministry of Research (ACI Jeunes Chercheurs: ‘‘Corpus de textes scientifiques: Histoires et perspectives the´oriques’’) allowed us to transform our former questions about sources into a more constructed problematics and to widen the contexts in which this problematics could be raised by inviting researchers from different continents. A REHSEIS seminar—Histoire des sciences en Asie (history of Science in Asia)—and two international workshops provided the framework of these debates. The first w