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Main Author:	Raina, Dhruv (Author)
Format:	Thesis/Dissertation Book
Language:	English
Published:	Göteborg 1999
Series:	Rapport / Institutionen för Vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs Universitet 201
Subjects:	Geschichte 1690-1840 Astronomie Rezeption Mathematik Frankreich Indien Hochschulschrift
Links:	http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=021951634&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Physical Description:	VII, 311 S.

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adam_text	IMAGE 1 NATIONALISM, INSTITUTIONAL SCIENCE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE: ANCIENT INDIAN ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS IN THE LANDSCAPE OF FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT ASTRONOMY DHRUV RAINA AKADEMISK AVHANDLING FOR FILOSOFIE DOKTORSEXAMEN INSTITUTIONEN FOR VETENSKAPSTEORI, GOTEBORGS UNIVERSITET FREDAGEN 3 DECEMBER 1999, KL.10 SAL S 214, VETENSKAPSTEORI INSTITUTIONEN, DICKSONGATAN 12 IMAGE 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS I ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS V CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1 SITUATING HISTORIOGRAPHY WITHIN THE SOCIAL THEORY OF 7 SCIENCE IS POST-COLONIAL THEORY OF SCIENCE AMBUSHED AT THE 10 OUTSET? POSTCOLONIAL HYBRIDITY AND HYBRID POSTCOLONIALISM 15 HISTORY, POSTCOLONIALITY AND POSTCOLONIAL EPISTEMOLOGY 19 THE CONSTRUCTION OF ENLIGHTENMENT HISTORIOGRAPHY 23 THE THEORY OF THE PRE-SCIENCE OF HISTORIOGRAPHY 26 THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE IDENTITY OF THE HISTORY OF 29 SCIENCE 1.4 ENLIGHTENMENT HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE SCIENCES OF INDIA IN 34 CONTEXT CHAPTER 2 THE HISTORICAL ASTRONOMY OF THE JESUIT SCIENTISTS IN 48 INDIA (1670-1770) 2.1 THE LINKAGES BETWEEN THE ACADEMIE ROYALE AND THE 51 JESUIT SCIENTISTS 2.2 THE JESUIT ENCOUNTER WITH THE NON-WEST 62 2.3 GEODESY AND CHRONOLOGY IN THE LETTRES OF THE JESUITS 66 2.3.1 THE HISTORIC EXPEDITION OF PERES PONS AND BOUDIER TO 69 JAIPUR 2.3.2 THE DUCHAMP MANUSCRIPTS 76 2.4 THE POLITICAL AND COGNITIVE HORIZON OF THE LETTRES 80 2.5 INTERPRETING THE BIBLE AND MAPPING THE EARTH 84 IMAGE 3 CHAPTER 3 THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF INDIAN ASTRONOMY AND LE GENTIL S 90 MEMOIRES AND VOYAGES (1760-1787) 3.1 THE PROJECT OF THE SECULAR HISTORY OF SCIENCE 92 3.2 INSTITUTIONAL DIFFERENTIATION 95 3.3 THE PROTO-ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE ASTRONOMICAL PRACTICES OF 105 INDIA 3.3.1 THE PHASE OF ENCHANTMENT WITH THE ASTRONOMY OF 107 ANCIENT INDIA 3.3.2 THE PROTO-ETHNOGRAPHIC ENCOUNTER WITH THE BRAHMIN 110 ASTRONOMERS OF PONDICHERRY OR THE ABSENCE OF ONE 3.3.3 THE ORIGINS OF THE ZODIAC: THE MAKINGS OF A PRIORITY 117 DISPUTE 3.4 IN THE TRANSITION ZONE BETWEEN ETHNOGRAPHY AND HISTORY 120 CHAPTER 4 THE ANCIENT WORLD IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT HISTORY OF 126 ASTRONOMY (1770-1800) 4.1 THE GOLDEN AGE OF FRENCH MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY 128 4.2 THE TREATISE ON INDIAN AND ORIENTAL ASTRONOMY 133 4.3 THE BAILLY-VOLTAIRE CONTROVERSY ON THE ANTEDILUVIAN 136 SOURCES OF INDIAN ASTRONOMY 4.3.1 THE RIPOSTE TO VOLATIRE S ESSAI 140 4.3.2 THE THEORY OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF 141 SCIENCE 4.3.3 THE CHRONOLOGY OF ORIENTAL ASTRONOMY 152 4.4 INDIA IN BAILLY S HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY 156 4.4.1 INVENTING THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 157 4.4.2 THE ENLIGHTENMENT MASTER NARRATIVE 160 4.5 THE RECEPTION OF BAILLY S HISTORY 164 4.5.1 MONTUCLA S SPECIALIST HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS 164 4.5.2 THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY IN LAPLACE S EXPOSITION 168 4.6 THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE AT THE DAWN OF THE 175 IMAGE 4 REVOLUTION CHAPTER 5 INSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE RETREAT FROM THE 182 ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAL (1800-1820) 5.1 INSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND DIFFERENTIATION 183 5.2 THE SOCIO-COGNITIVE DIMENSION OF INSTITUTIONAL REFORM 186 AND DIFFERENTIATION 5.2.1 THE META-CONTEXT OF DECLINE 191 5.2.2 DELAMBRE: ASTRONOMER-HISTORIAN OF ASTRONOMY 193 5.3 BREAKING WITH THE ENLIGHTENMENT HISTORY OF NON-WESTERN 195 SCIENCE 5.3.1 DELAMBRE S THEORY OF SCIENCE 196 5.3.2 THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ORIGINS OF A WESTERN SCIENCE 199 5.3.3 THE CONFLICT OF NATIONAL INTERPRETIVE TRADITIONS: ANGLO- 205 FRENCH RIVALRY 5.3.4 THE ALGEBRAIC SIGNATURE OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION 209 5.3.5 THE BREAK WITH THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY? 216 5.4 THE DEMARCATION OF BOUNDARIES IN CONSTRUCTING 219 EUROCENTRIC SCIENCE CHAPTER 6 THE DECLINE OF AN INTERPRETATIVE TRADITION (1830-1850) 226 6.1 BUREAU DES LONGITUDES VENTURES INTO ORIENTALISM 227 6.1.1 THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE ZODIAC AND THE CONTINUING 229 BATTLE WITH THE BRITISH ORIENTALISTS 6.1.2 THE ARROW OF INFLUENCE IS DIRECTED EASTWARD 233 6.1.3 A LOST OPPORTUNITY FOR FRENCH INDOLOGY 237 6.2 MICHEL CHASLES: LE GRAND G6OMETRE FRANCAIS 240 6.2.1 NATIONALISM SHAPES THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF MATHEMATICS 242 6.2.2 THE ORIGINS OF INDIAN ASTRONOMY SHROUDED IN INCERTITUDE 244 AND OBSCURITY 6.2.3 THE MULTIPLICATION OF PRIORITY DISPUTES 247 IMAGE 5 6.2.4 THE L ESPIRIT GEOMETRIC SPIRIT AS DEMARCATION PRINCIPLE 249 6.2.5, BRAHMAGUPTA S THEOREMS OF CYCLIC QUADRILATERALS 253 6.3 SEDILLOT: LES ARABES ONT ETE, EN TOUT, NOS MALTRES 258 6.4 THE LAST DECADE OF AN INTERPRETATIVE TRADITION 261 CHAPTER 7 THE SHIFTING SANDS OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY 269 BIBLIOGRAPHY 289
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