The orientation of science and technology: a Japanese view
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Main Author: Nakayama, Shigeru (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Folkestone Global Oriental 2009
Series:Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan v. 3
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The first appearance of Aristotelian cosmology in Japan, Kenkon Bensetsu -- On the introduction of the heliocentric system into Japan -- Japanese studies in the history of astronomy -- Abhorrence of 'God' in the introduction of Copernicanism into Japan -- Cyclic variation of astronomical parameters and the revival of trepidation in Japan -- The role played by universities in scientific and technological development in Japan -- Diffusion of Copernicanism in Japan -- Grass-roots geology -- Ijiri Shoji and the Chidanken -- Problems of the professionalization of science in late-nineteenth-century Japan -- History of science: a subject for the frustrated -- recent Japanese experience -- Science and technology in modern Japanese development -- Public science in the modernization of Japan -- Japanese scientific thought -- The future of research -- a call for 'service science' -- The transplantation of modern science to Japan -- The American occupation and the science council of Japan -- Independence and choice: western impacts on Japanese higher education -- Human rights and the structure of the scientific enterprise -- History of East Asian science: needs and opportunities -- The Chinese 'cyclic' view of history vs. Japanese 'progress' -- The ideogram versus the phonogram in the past, present and future -- Preface and historical introduction to 'a social history of science and technology in contemporary Japan' -- The scientific community post-defeat -- Overcoming the digital divide between phonetic and ideographic languages -- Eighteenth-century science: Japan -- Technology in history: Japan -- Colonial science: an introduction -- Thomas Kuhn: a historian's personal recollections
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 390 p.)
ISBN:1905246722
9004213074
9781905246724
9789004213074

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