The knowledge of nature and the nature of knowledge in early modern Japan

✍ Scribed by Marcon, Federico

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 429
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 this book, 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.

✦ Subjects

Nature study;Nature study--Japan--History;Science;Science--Japan--History;History;Nature study -- Japan -- History;Science -- Japan -- History;Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868;Japan

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