Situating the History of Science: Dialogues with Joseph Needham - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195646398 ISBN 13: 9780195646399

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999

Synopsis

The essays in this volume place the history of science in context, especially the genre of history of science informed by Joseph Needham's ecumenical vision of science. The book presents a number of questions that relate to contemporary concerns of the history of sciences and multiculturalism.

About this title

About the Author

Dhruv Raina and Irfan Habib are both Scientists at the National Institute of Science, Technology and Development Studies.

Review

`In a very interesting paper, "The Missing Picture", Raina and Habib finally bring us back tot he issue of how to situate Needham's projects in the horizons of Asian people, historians and intellectuals, be they Indians, Chinese, or Taiwanese. It is a very pleasant experience to read how
Raina and Habib explain the social and conceptual obstacles in the way of non-emergence of a Needhamian history of sciences of India.'
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EASTM), Vol.17, 2000

`Vol. 17, 2000'
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (EASTM) Vol. 17, 2000

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0195646398
• ISBN 13: 9780195646399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Habib S. Irfan, Raina Dhruv