Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/10474
Title: Multicivilizational exchanges in the making of modern science: Needham's dialogical vision
Editors: Bala, Arun 
Lau, Raymond W. K. 
Mei, Jianjun 
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: London: Palgrave Macmillan
Source: Bala, A.; Lau, R. W. K.; Mei, J. (eds.) (2024). Multicivilizational exchanges in the making of modern science: Needham's dialogical vision. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Abstract: This book explores how and why exchanges across civilizations have come to enrich science today. The dialogical dimension of the history of science has long been marginalized by an excessive concern on why modern science emerged in Europe, but not in any of the advanced civilizations of the East. This focus upon what has been called Joseph Needham's "Grand Comparative Question" ignores his other project, focused on showing how dialogues between civilizations have nurtured science. Needham's "Grand Dialogical Question" – if we may call it that by parity – has directly or indirectly inspired a vast body of literature showing how interconnections of civilizations over the last three thousand years, and exchanges of cosmological, mathematical, geographical, physical, biological and medical technologies, techniques, practices and knowledge, have been woven together to produce current science. Bringing together scholars whose research range across multiple civilizations and disciplines, this book investigates the scope and limits of Needham's dialogical vision for science.
Type: Edited Book
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11861/10474
ISBN: 9789819735402
Appears in Collections:Contemporary China Research Center - Publication

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