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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