Book
Pieces and parts in scientific texts
Abstract
This book starts from a first general observation: there are very diverse ways to frame and convey scientific knowledge in texts. It then analyzes texts on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and life sciences, produced in various parts of the globe and in different time periods, and examines the reasons behind the segmentation of texts and the consequences of such textual divisions. How can historians and philosophers of science approach this diversity, and what is at stake in dealing with it? The book addresses these questions, adopting a specific approach do to so.
Details | Table of Contents
"parts of text" and "stretches of text"
pp.19-46
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_2pp.49-70
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_3interpreting the chapter form of the nine chapters on mathematical procedures
pp.91-133
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_5from the author to his commentator. the example of Conics by Apollonius of Perga
pp.135-157
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_6pp.159-220
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_7where syntax and layout matter
pp.223-267
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_8between intertextuality and the architecture of the book
pp.269-295
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_9the circulation of "parts of texts' among paper cabinets of linguistic curiosities (sixteenth-seventeenth century)
pp.297-346
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0_10Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2018
Pages: 355
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78467-0
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-78466-3
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-78467-0
Full citation:
Bretelle-Establet Florence, Schmitt Stéphane (2018) Pieces and parts in scientific texts. Dordrecht, Springer.