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The History of Science in a World of Readers

Dagmar Schäfer, Angela N. H. Creager (eds.)
An anthology of influential literature published in the history of science in English.
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An anthology of influential literature published in the history of science in English.

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This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE) Licence.

What role should historians of science, technology, and medicine have in communicating their own body of literature—its methods and concerns—across linguistic boundaries? This anthology is a proactive response to this question. As the West and the East become ever more closely related through travel, trade, and—not least—the globalization of knowledge, the seven essays in this volume should stimulate new engagements between English and Chinese readers on the centrality of science, technology, and medicine for our histories and our future. A wider selection of influential literature published in English since 1990 has been translated into Chinese and published in China in a companion volume.

History of Science in a World of Readers: Frames of References for Global Exchange
Angela N. H. Creager, Dagmar Schäfer

1 The Openness of Knowledge: An Ideal and Its Context in 16th-Century Writings on Mining and Metallurgy
Pamela O. Long

2 Political Designs: Nuclear Reactors and National Policy in Postwar France
Gabriele Hecht

3 Technics and Civilization in Late Imperial China: An Essay in the Cultural History of Technology
Francesca Bray

4 Deuteronomic Texts: Late Antiquity and the History of Mathematics
Reviel Netz

5 The Possession of Kuru: Medical Science and Biocolonial Exchange
Warwick Anderson

6 Knowledge in Transit
James A. Secord

7 Peasant Friendly Plant Breeding and the Early Years of the Green Revolution in Mexico
Jonathan Harwood

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Information

ISBN

978-3-945561-53-9

DOI

10.34663/9783945561430-00

Pages

189

Publication Date

Dec. 9, 2019

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Suggested Citation

Schäfer, Dagmar and Creager, Angela N. H. (eds.) (2019). The History of Science in a World of Readers. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften.