The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

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

出版者:University Of Chicago Press

作者:Federico Marcon

页数:392

出版时间:2015-7-16

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780226251905

图书标签:科学史医疗史环境史日本近代史本草历史生态环境

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 honzogaku) 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.

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下学期选他的课

may I say, i am a little bit disappointed?

well organized and beautifully written。不过是不是占了英语圈没有类似主题著作的便宜感觉主要是汇总了日本材料。。。做入门参考不错

非常优雅而游刃有余的科学史著作，突出了日本本草学历史的复杂性，而且利用阿多诺的理论来阐述有一种画龙点睛的效果。

a transnational production of knowledge; 章節安排稍微有種頭重腳輕的感覺..