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A Chinese Canon in Mathematics and Its Two Layers of Commentaries: Reading a Collection of Texts as commentaries. . is one of the oldest canons that has come down to us. It has played a central role both in the history and the historiography of mathematics in China. The main questions addressed in this chapter were inspired by some remarks regarding the way in which . and its commentaries have been handed down.

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On Sanskrit Commentaries Dealing with Mathematics (Fifth–Twelfth Century)tics and astronomy were practiced in India in the past.. To overcome this problem some historians of science have turned to periods (XVIth–XIXth century) and places where institutions, libraries and many texts help us contextualize their mathematical and astronomical ideas..

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Is the Lower Yangzi River Region the Only Seat of Medical Knowledge in Late Imperial China? A Glanceians now know that they have access to a daunting bulk of literature. For example, according to the . (. 全国中医图书联合目录) which lists the medical books available in 113 major libraries in China, of the 12,124 extant medical books, approximately 11,129 (or 92%) were written from 1600 onwards.

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What Shaped Our Corpuses of Astral and Mathematical Cuneiform Texts?rly, religious, and personal agendas that have shaped the formation of our corpuses of cuneiform texts ever since. Those modern forces were not, however, monolithic, but varied from subject matter to subject matter.