Science and Technology in Non-Western Cultures

Seline's edited volume relevates non-Western interaction between religious and scientific domains of human intellectual history. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Chinese thinkers have played central roles in pursuing intellectual inquiry into topics of broad human concern. Although copious and...

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Published in:Zygon
Main Author: Andresen, Jensine (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 1999
In: Zygon
Further subjects:B Multiculturalism
B knowledge system
B Divination
B Āyurveda
B Book review
B Mongols
B Rationality
B Indigenous
B Colonialism
B Ottomans
B Zoroastrianism
B Vedas
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Summary:Seline's edited volume relevates non-Western interaction between religious and scientific domains of human intellectual history. Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Chinese thinkers have played central roles in pursuing intellectual inquiry into topics of broad human concern. Although copious and nuanced literary collections in Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan languages document non-Western contributions, these primary sources often are inaccessible to Western scholars, creating the false illusion that members of non-Western cultures have offered only marginal contributions to the rigorous investigation of the natural world. This illusion is dispelled thoroughly by a number of excellent articles contained in Seline's volume.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00218