Article ID: CBB000100846

Jean-Baptiste Biot on the History of Indian Astronomy (1830-1860): The Nation in the Post-Enlightenment Historiography of Science (2000)

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Description Historiographical essay that situates history of Indian astronomy and mathemetics in Post-Enlightenment France through a socio-epistemological reading of Biot's Étude sur l'astronomie indienne, Paris, 1859; 1862.


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Authors & Contributors
Levitt, Theresa
Lara Piersanti
Beckers, Danny
Silvio Bozzi
Kharlamova, Vera I.
Wang, Xiao-qin
Journals
Indian Journal of History of Science
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Studium: Tijdschrift voor Wetenschaps- en Universiteitgeschiedenis
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
Publishers
Franco Angeli
EDP Sciences, Collection Sciences et Histoire
Oxford University Press
Einaudi
Brepols Publishers
Harvard University
Concepts
History of science, as a discipline
Mathematics
Historiography
Philosophy
India, civilization and culture
Astronomy
People
Biot, Jean-Baptiste
Vailati, Giovanni
Peacock, George
Arago, François Jean Dominique
Arago, François
Varman, Sankara
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
Renaissance
Medieval
Places
France
Italy
Europe
Great Britain
Portugal
Institutions
Wittwer
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