Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World : Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History

• Autore: Keller Agathe
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (582 pages)
• Disciplina: 509.01
• Altri autori: ChemlaKarine
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World: An Introduction -- 1.1 Outlining the Project of the Book -- 1.1.1 Historical Remarks About Textual Criticism -- 1.1.2 Critical Editions and the Erasure of Clues About Practices -- 1.1.3 Historicizing the Modernization of Ancient Texts in Editions and Translations -- 1.1.4 Our project -- 1.2 Ancient and Modern Actors and Institutions at Work in the Manufacturing of Sources for Ancient and Medieval Texts -- 1.2.1 Ancient Editorial and Cross-Linguistic Practices -- 1.2.2 What Was at Issue When Returning to Ancient Texts in Early Modern and Modern Times? -- 1.2.3 Shaping Specific Features of Scientific Texts -- 1.2.4 Publishing Ancient Mathematical and Astronomical texts: Comparative Perspectives -- 1.3 Conclusion -- References -- Part I: Ancient Editorial and Cross-Linguistic Practices -- Chapter 2: Before the Library of Babel: On Some Very Early Philologers -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Ancient Mesopotamian Writings -- 2.3 Early Mesopotamian Writing -- 2.4 The Beginnings of Mesopotamian Philology -- 2.5 Third Millennium Developments -- 2.6 The Word Lists of Ebla -- 2.7 The Standard Professions List-A Case in Point -- 2.8 The New Semitic Language Philology -- 2.9 Third Millennium Mathematical Exercises-Some Examples -- 2.10 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: A Theory of Philological Practice in Early Modern India -- 3.1 Sanskrit Philology in Practice But Not in Theory -- 3.2 The Genre of Philological Commentary -- 3.3 Scriptural Commentary, Buddhist and Other -- 3.4 Sanskrit Textual Criticism -- 3.5 The Historical Moment -- 3.6 The Theory of the Text -- 3.7 A Dead or a Living History? -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Works -- Part II: What Was at Issue in Returning to Ancient Texts in Early Modern and Modern Times?. ; Chapter 4: Rethinking the Ancient Mathematical Text: Ming-Qing Scholars' Critical Reflections on The Gnomon of the Zhou [Dynasty] -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Comments on The Gnomon of the Zhou [Dynasty] in Late Ming and Early Qing -- 4.3 The Kangxi Emperor's Test Using Two Terms from The Gnomon of the Zhou [Dynasty] and Early Qing Scholars' Reactions -- 4.4 Kangxi's Theory of the Chinese Origin of Western Learning and Mei Wending's Reaction Based on The Gnomon of Zhou [Dynasty] -- 4.5 The Kangxi Emperor's Interest in The Gnomon of Zhou [Dynasty] and Mei Juecheng's Role in the Compilation of The Fine Essence of Mathematical Principles -- 4.6 Was Pythagorean Theorem a Chinese Invention? French Jesuits and Their Interest in The Gnomon of the Zhou [Dynasty] -- 4.7 The Gnomon of the Zhou [Dynasty] and Its Commentators in the Mid-eighteenth Century -- 4.8 An Qingqiao and His Research on The Gnomon of the Zhou [Dynasty] -- 4.9 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 5: The Asiatic Society, the Bibliotheca Indica and Devanāgarı̄ Printing in Bengal: The Historical Context of the Editio Princeps of the Nyāyabhāṣya -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The Novelty of an Ancient Work -- 5.3 The Asiatic Society -- 5.3.1 Foundation, Mission and Membership -- 5.3.2 Publishing Endeavors and the Challenge of Devanāgarī -- 5.4 The Baptist Mission and the Press -- 5.5 The Bibliotheca Indica -- 5.6 The Editor of the NBh, Jayanārāyaṇa Tarkapañcānana -- 5.6.1 His Early Years -- 5.6.2 His Career at the Sanskrit College -- 5.6.3 His Works -- 5.7 Description of the Editio Princeps -- 5.8 Jayanārāyaṇa's Sources -- 5.9 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 6: Editing a Foundational Work on Classical Indian Medicine: The Printed Editions of the Carakasaṃhitā in Context -- 6.1 A Brief Introduction to the Carakasaṃhitā. ; 6.2 The Printed Editions of the Carakasaṃhitā -- 6.2.1 General Survey -- 6.2.2 Elucidation, Translation and the Choice of Language -- 6.2.3 Scripts, Regions and Places on the Timeline -- 6.2.4 Persons: Editors, Publishers and Printers, and Other Involved Actors -- 6.2.5 Motivation and Purpose in the Colonial Context -- 6.2.5.1 Fighting Decline, Loss and Neglect of a Great Treasure -- 6.2.5.2 Shaping a National Scientific Identity -- 6.2.5.3 Accommodating the 'Foreign Knowledge' in the Ancient Medical Knowledge -- 6.3 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix 6.1: A Survey of the Editions of the Carakasaṃhitā -- Appendix 6.2: A Synopsis of the Fascicles of Harinath Sarkar's Edition of the Carakasaṃhitā with Cakrapāṇidatta's Āyurvedadīpikā Begun in 1892 (E7) (British Library 14043.dd.15) -- Appendix 6.3: Ramprasad's References to Plastic Surgery and Brain Surgery in Ancient India -- References -- Part III: Shaping Specific Features of Scientific Texts -- Chapter 7: Representing Numbers and Quantities in Editions of Mathematical Cuneiform Texts -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Representing a Cuneiform Text in the Modern Latin Alphabet -- 7.3 How Transliterations Reflect Interpretations -- 7.4 Numbers for Counting -- 7.5 Sexagesimal Place-Value Notation -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Primary Sources -- References -- Chapter 8: Numbers and Quantities in Editions of Economic and Administrative Cuneiform Texts From the Beginning of the Second Millennium BCE: The Case of the Capacity System -- 8.1 Editing Numbers in Administrative and Economic Texts -- 8.1.1 The Editing of Cuneiform Texts -- 8.1.2 Numerical Systems Used for Numbers and Quantities -- 8.1.3 Transliterations of Numbers in the Texts from the Beginning of the Second Millennium BCE -- 8.1.3.1 Examples from Kaneš (Central Anatolia, Nineteenth Century BCE). ; 8.1.3.2 Examples from Mari (Middle Euphrates, Eighteenth Century BCE) -- 8.1.4 Wedges in Rows of Three -- 8.1.5 Translations of Fractions -- 8.2 Mesopotamian Capacity System Used in Editions of Administrative and Economic Texts -- 8.2.1 The Capacity System -- 8.2.2 In the Frame of the Debate Concerning the Existence of Sumerian -- 8.2.3 Trying to Understand Mesopotamian Metrology as a Whole System: The Pioneers -- 8.2.4 A Value for the QA (sila) Measure -- 8.2.5 How to Transliterate Quantities in the Capacity System: Conversion into sila or gur? -- 8.2.6 Fidelity to the Original Text -- 8.2.7 A Completely New Positional Notation -- 8.2.8 Impact of the New Notation -- 8.3 Conclusions -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Chapter 9: Reduction of Absurdity: Notes on the Editorial Transformations of Greek Diagrams -- 9.1 Early Diagrams of Proof by Contradiction: Stating a Practice -- 9.1.1 The Overall Case of Diagrams, Ancient and Edited -- 9.1.2 The Diagrams of Proof by Contradiction: A Typology -- 9.1.3 The Diagrams of Proof by Contradiction: Preliminary Notes -- 9.2 Early and Modern Diagrams of Proof by Contradiction: Reduction of Absurdity -- 9.2.1 The Print Tradition: Preliminary Notes -- 9.2.2 Absurdity into Print -- 9.2.3 Manuscript Variation and the Rejection of Absurdity -- 9.3 Conclusion -- Appendix Chapter 9: Visual Sources in Manuscript and in Print -- A. Visual Sources in Manuscript -- Archimedes Manuscripts -- Euclid Manuscripts -- Others -- B. Visual Sources in Print -- Archimedes -- Euclid -- Apollonius -- Pappus -- References -- Chapter 10: Editing the Sumerians, How and Why? -- References -- Part IV: Publishing Ancient Mathematical and Astronomical texts: Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 11: The Critical Edition of the Mathematical Texts of Greek Antiquity: Challenges and Methods. ; 11.1 The Nature of Conserved Mathematical Writings and Their Means of Transmission -- 11.1.1 Factual Data from the History of Texts -- 11.1.2 The Nature of the Transmitted Texts -- 11.2 The Edition of Mathematical Texts Up to Critical Editions -- 11.2.1 Editorial Issues in Antiquity -- 11.2.1.1 The Need for Revision -- 11.2.1.2 Corruption and Restoration of Sources -- 11.2.1.3 Issues of Attribution and Authenticity -- 11.2.1.4 Combining Traditions -- 11.2.2 From the Middle Ages to Eighteenth-Century Editions -- 11.2.2.1 The Editio Princeps of the Renaissance -- 11.2.2.2 Later Editions -- 11.2.3 Towards a Critical Edition -- 11.3 Modern Editorial Issues -- 11.4 Conics, a Case in Point -- 11.4.1 The Vicissitudes of Transmission -- 11.4.2 Issues Editors Face -- 11.4.2.1 Answers from Heiberg's Edition -- 11.4.2.2 Recent Directions of Investigation -- 11.5 From Text History to Text Criticism: Methodological Issues -- 11.6 Which Figures Should Be Edited? -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 12: Shaping a Mathematical Text in Sanskrit: H. T. Colebrooke, Sudhākara Dvivedin, and Pṛthūdaka's Commentary on the Twelfth Chapter of the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Some Unresolved Problems -- 12.2.1 Sources: Brahmagupta and Pṛthūdaka's Commentary -- 12.2.2 Problem 1: A Text Understood with a Badly Preserved Commentary -- 12.2.3 Problem 2: Which Table of Contents? -- 12.2.4 Problem 3: Practices with Numbers and Quantities -- 12.3 Colebrooke's Translation -- 12.3.1 Singling Out Mathematics -- 12.3.2 A Translation: Establishing an Original Text -- 12.3.3 The Commentary in a Footnote -- 12.3.4 A Table of Contents of Antiquated Topics: Logistics and Determinations -- 12.3.5 Care with Decimal Place Value Notation. ; 12.3.6 A Fragmented, Hierarchized and Organized Text as a Tool for Comparison and as a Grid to Mold and Evaluate.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World
• ISBN: 3-031-49617-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910861095603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Archimedes Series