The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University - Federico Marcon - Libros - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226251905 - 16 de julio de 2015
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The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan - Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University


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The field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional and philosophical understandings of the world. The author recounts how Japanese scholars developed a discipline of natural history analogous to Europe's but created independently, without direct influence.


Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Biographical Note: Federico Marcon is assistant professor of Japanese history in the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. Publisher Marketing: Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called "honz""ogaku") that rivaled Western science in complexity and then seemingly disappeared. Or did it? In "The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan," Federico Marcon recounts how Japanese scholars developed a sophisticated discipline of natural history analogous to Europe s but created independently, without direct influence, and argues convincingly that Japanese natural history succumbed to Western science not because of suppression and substitution, as scholars traditionally have contended, but by adaptation and transformation. The first book-length English-language study devoted to the important field of honzogaku, "The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan "will be an essential text for historians of Japanese and East Asian science, and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the development of science in the early modern era."

Contributor Bio:  Marcon, Federico Federico Marcon is assistant professor of Japanese history in the Department of History and the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 16 de julio de 2015
ISBN13 9780226251905
Editores The University of Chicago Press
Género Cultural Region > Japanese
Páginas 392
Dimensiones 161 × 239 × 30 mm   ·   718 g

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