Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives

By Alain Bernard

Book Overview

Contributors.- General Introduction; Alain Bernard and Christine Proust.- Part I: Holistic Approach.- The teaching context and reading from the 16th to the 19th centuries: The role of the memorization of texts in learning; Anne-Marie Chartier.- Teaching and learning medicine and exorcism at Uruk during the Hellenistic period; Philippe Clancier.- Part II: Critical Approach.- Does a master always write for his students? Some evidence from Old Babylonian scribal schools; Christine Proust.- In what sense did Theon's commentary on the Almagest have a didactic purpose?; Alain Bernard.- Part III: Comparative Approach.- Relationships between French "practical arithmetics" and teaching?; St?phane Lamass?.- On the transmission of mathematical knowledge in versified form in China; Andrea Br?ard.- Mathematical Progress or Mathematical Teaching? Bilingualism and Printing In European Renaissance Mathematics; Giovanna C. Cifoletti.- Part IV: Zooming Approach.- Leonardo of Pisa and the Liber Abaci. Biographical elements and the project of the work; Eva Caianiello.- Didactical Dimensions of Mathematical Problems: Weighted Distribution in a Vietnamese Mathematical Treatise; Alexei Volkov.- Learning and Teaching Medicine in Late Imperial China; Florence Bretelle-Establet.- Post Face.- On the sources of the historian of science from the perspective of a history of education; Karine Chemla.- Index.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400751214
• ISBN13: 9789400751217
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"