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1 online resource (xxi, 390 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Collected papers of twentieth-century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 3
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Collected papers of twentieth century Japanese writers on Japan ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Japan -- History.
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Science. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
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Technology -- Japan -- History.
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Technology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nakayama, Shigeru, 1928- Orientation of science and technology. Folkestone : Global Oriental, 2009 9781905246724 (OCoLC)195742904 |
| ISBN |
9789004213074 (electronic book) |
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9004213074 (electronic book) |
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9781905246724 |
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1905246722 |
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