History of Science, History of Text

Abstract

This volume is the publication of a selection of the papers that were presented at a workshop in Berlin in 1995.It explores the relationship between scientific practices and their manifestation in the form of scientific writings.The 10 articles, organized in four sections (plus an introduction and epilogue), cover an unusually broad variety of cultures (Mesopotamia, China, Europe, India) and times (from 1700 BC up to the 19th century AD), and the diversity of topics is just as wide.Karine Chemla provides the introduction to this volume [vii-xxvii], and she makes clear that it aims to tackle the issues from a global perspective and to abandon as invalid the separation of the content of a text from its physical manifestation or material culture.Each of the respective articles sheds light on one or more specific aspects of the interrelation between the creation, use, and understanding of scientific texts.This collection, therefore, presents a multitude of impressions for a 'professional reader' of any kind of scientific text.

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