Contents

pp.：  5 – 20

Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

Introduction: Questioning Science in East Asian Contexts

pp.：  9 – 20

part 1

pp.：  19 – 20

Science and Confucian Scholars

pp.：  19 – 20

chapter 1

pp.：  21 – 42

Zhu Xi on Nature and Science*

pp.：  21 – 42

chapter 2

pp.：  43 – 60

‘Analogical Extension’ (leitui) in Zhu Xi’s Methodology of ‘Investigation of Things’ (gewu) and ‘Extension of Knowledge’ (zhizhi)*

pp.：  43 – 60

chapter 3

pp.：  61 – 80

Ideas about the Role of Heaven in Production Techniques in Song Yingxing’s Heaven’s Work in Opening Things (Tiangong kaiwu): ‘Natural Theology of Industry’ in Seventeenth-Century China?*

pp.：  61 – 80

chapter 4

pp.：  81 – 110

Science and the Confucian Tradition in the Work of Chŏng Yak-yong*

pp.：  81 – 110

part 2

pp.：  109 – 110

Social and Cultural Contexts of Science in East Asia

pp.：  109 – 110

chapter 5

pp.：  111 – 138

Problems in the Study of the History of Chinese Science: An Early Review of the Field*

pp.：  111 – 138

chapter 6

pp.：  139 – 166

Confucian Scholars and Specialized Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Traditional China, 1000-1700*

pp.：  139 – 166

chapter 7

pp.：  167 – 178

Science and Religion in Traditional China*

pp.：  167 – 178

chapter 8

pp.：  179 – 196

Science and Bureaucracy in Traditional China*

pp.：  179 – 196

part 3

pp.：  195 – 196

Comparative Problems in the History of Science

pp.：  195 – 194

in East Asia

pp.：  195 – 196

chapter 9

pp.：  197 – 212

The ‘Why Not’ Question of Chinese Science: The Scientific Revolution and Traditional Chinese Science*

pp.：  197 – 212

chapter 10

pp.：  213 – 234

The Ideas of the Earth’s Rotation in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century East Asia: Independent Development, Transmission from the West, and Chinese Forerunners*

pp.：  213 – 234

chapter 11

pp.：  235 – 246

Problem of Meiji Japan in the History of Science in East Asia*

pp.：  235 – 246

chapter 12

pp.：  247 – 292

The Problem of China in the Study of the History of Korean Science: Korean Science, Chinese Science, and East Asian Science*

pp.：  247 – 260

Bibliography

pp.：  261 – 282

Index

pp.：  283 – 292