Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries [Paperback]

This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions can provide resources for advancing scientific knowledge in future.PART I: TOWARD DIALOGICAL HISTORY Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism; J.M.Hobson   A Passage to Infinity: The Contribution of Kerala to Modern Mathematics; G.G.Joseph  Copernicus, Arabic Science and Scientific (R)evolutions; M.Kokowski   Time Atomism and Ash'arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism Revisited; R.T.W.Arthur   Pramanas, Proofs and the Yukti of Classical Indic Science; R.Narasimha   PART II: SCIENCE, RATIONALITY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE Traditional Knowledge and the Smallpox Eradication Campaign; J.R.Brown   The Dialogical Copernican Revolution: Implications for Scientific Method; A.Bala   How Indigenous are 'Indigenous Sciences'? The Case of 'Islamic Sciences'; A.Paya   The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Rise of Modern Science; A.Khursheed   Science, Technology and Civilization Reconsidered; A.Brennan   PART III: FORGING NEW KNOWLEDGE  The Relevance of Classical Chinese Medicine; K.Lee   Diverse Cultural Contributions to a 'Science of Religion': An Emerging Asia-Europe Dialogue on the Scientific Study of Religion; D.Wiebe   Reclaiming Tradition: Implications of a Knowledge Indigenization Perspective for Asian Education; S.Gopinathan   Southeast Asia's Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae; V.R.Savage

'The research is timely, and because this is an emerging field, this volume should remain a noteworthy pioneering work for a significant time. By collecting essays from scholars with a wide range of expertise, this book will make a lasting implã!