Chapter ID: CBB558549518

La carrière de Mei Wending (1633-1721) et le statut des sciences mathématiques dans le savoir lettré (2013)

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Jami, Catherine (Author)


Pages: 19-47


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Translated title: [Mei Wending’s (1633-1721) Career and the Status of the Mathematical Sciences in Scholarly Learning]
Language: French

Cet article s’intéresse aux quatre grandes étapes de l’itinéraire et la carrière de Mei Wending, spécialiste de sciences mathématiques, et montre ce que ces étapes doivent à certains traits de l’État et de la société des Qing : le système des examens de recrutement, le patronage impérial des savoirs, reproduit par les hauts fonctionnaires, ainsi que la mobilité géographique de ces derniers. Les liens entre certaines caractéristiques des lieux de savoir où a vécu Mei, d’une part, et l’écriture et la circulation de ses nombreux traités, d’autre part, sont mis en lumière afin de montrer comment il finit par être reconnu comme « un grand mathématicien et astronome » alors même que les disciplines dans lesquelles il se spécialise acquièrent le statut de savoirs lettrés. This paper shows that there were four major stages in the career of Mei Wending, a specialist in the mathematical sciences, and goes on to analyse how these stages where shaped by certain features of the early Qing state and society. These included the civil examination system, imperial patronage of learning (which was itself emulated by high officials) as well as these officials’ geographical mobility. The links between certain characteristics of the sites of knowledge where Mei lived, on the one hand, and the production and circulation of his many treatises are highlighted, on the other hand, so as to show how he was finally recognized as “a great mathematician and astronomer” just at the time when the disciplines in which he specialized were gaining the status of scholarly learning. 本文指出算學家梅文鼎的遊歷和學術生涯分為四個重要階段,並分析這種階段性與清代國家社會某些特徵的關係:科考銓選制度、皇家(以及上行下效的高級官員)對學術的贊助、官員在不同地區間的流動。通過分析梅氏曾逗留的學術場所特點與其作品的寫作和流傳之關係,可以看出其如何成為公認的 “偉大天文學家、數學家”,以及其精研的學科如何隨之獲得士人之學的地位。

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Authors & Contributors
Jami, Catherine
Sela, Ori
Han, Qi
Jiang-Ping Jeff Chen
Stephen Whiteman
Yuan, Min
Concepts
East Asia, civilization and culture
Mathematics
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Astronomy
Biographies
Transmission of ideas
Time Periods
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
17th century
18th century
Ming dynasty (China, 1368-1644)
19th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
China
Japan
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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