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Science between Europe and Asia - Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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Science between Europe and Asia - Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 275
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This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of
scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between
central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the
printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and
drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques,
the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well
as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and
electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in
the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local
languages helped the introduction of new knowledge in mathematical,
physical and natural sciences from central Europe to its periphery
and to the Middle East and Asian cultures. The book argues that the
process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or
practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to
the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and
complex cultural process of selection and transformation where
ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. The book
explores the issue from a different geopolitical perspective,
namely not focusing on a singular recipient and several points of
distribution, namely the metropolitan centres of science, medicine,
and technology, but on regions that are both recipients and
distributors and provides new perspectives based on newly
investigated material for historical studies on the cross
scientific exchanges between different parts of the world.
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