This book focuses on the ancient Near East, early imperial China, South-East Asia, and medieval E...

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has rece...

This is the first book-length analysis of the techniques and procedures of ancient mathematical c...

This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of h...

This book sheds light on the variety of mathematical cultures in general. To do so, it concentrat...

The book presents the outcomes of an innovative research programme in the history of science and ...

How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet Fr...

Generality is a key value in scientific discourses and practices. Throughout history, it has rece...

two main (interacting) ways. They constitute that with which exploration into problems or questio...

This book contributes to a worldwide history of textual criticism and critical editions of ancien...

This book, a tribute to historian of mathematics Jeremy Gray, offers an overview of the history o...

Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a co...