Dodonaeus in Japan : translation and the scientific mind in the Tokugawa period /
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| Imprint: | Leuven : Leuven University Press ; Kyoto : International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2001. |
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| Description: | 383 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4847229 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Dodonaeus in the European Context
- I. Dodonaeus: A Bio-bibliographical Summary
- II. Dodonaeus and the Herbal Tradition
- III. Botanical Practice and Agricultural Demands in Early Modern Europe: the Contribution of Rembertus Dodonaeus
- IV. Botanical Collectors and Collections in the Low Countries
- II. Translation and the Articulation of the Modern Episteme in Japan
- V. Breaking Boundaries: on Translation and the Concept of Society
- VI. Linguistics and Translation in Pre-Modern Japan and China: a Comparison
- VII. Reinterpretation of the Western Linear Perspective in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan: a Case of Cultural Translation
- VIII. The Tokugawa Bakufu's Policies for the National Production of Medicines and Dodonaeus' Cruijdeboeck
- III. Japanese Renditions of Dodonaeus
- IX. The Reception and Spread of Dodonaeus' Cruydt-Boeck in Japan
- X. The Visual Legacy of Dodonaeus in Botanical and Human Categorisation
- XI. Dodonaeus and Tokugawa Culture: Hiraga Gennai and Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Japan
- XII. The Development of Japanese Botanical Interest and Dodonaeus' Role: from Pharmacopoeia to Botany and Horticulture
- IV. The Rangaku Context
- XIII. Dodonaeus in Japanese: Deshima Surgeons as Mediators in the Early Introduction of Western Natural History
- XIV. The Early Penetration of French Science into Japan during the Tokugawa Period
- XV. "Rerum Memorabilium Thesauros," a Treasury of Memorable Things-Carl Peter Thunberg's Observations during His Year in Japan, 1775-1776
- XVI. The Influence of Herman Boerhaave's Mechanical Concept of the Human Body in Nineteenth-Century Japan
- Index of Names
