Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science

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Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science is written by Florence Bretelle-Establet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9048136768 (ISBN 10) and 9789048136766 (ISBN 13).

How do Documents Become Sources? Perspectives from Asia and Science Florence Bretelle-Establet From Documents to Sources in Historiography The present volume develops a specific type of critical analysis of the written documents that have become historians’ sources. For reasons that will be explained later, the history of science in Asia has been taken as a framework. However, the issue addressed is general in scope. It emerged from reflections on a problem that may seem common to historians: why, among the huge mass of written documents available to historians, some have been well studied while others have been dismissed or ignored? The question of historical sources and their (unequal) use in historiography is not new. Which documents have been used and favored as historical sources by historians has been a key historiographical issue that has occupied a large space in the historical production of the last four decades, in France at least.