The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 1st Edition by Federico Marcon ISBN 022625206X 9780226252063

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ISBN 10: 022625206X

ISBN 13: 978-0226252063

Author:  Federico Marcon 

The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 1st Edition: Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicine, produced knowledge that questioned the traditional religious and philosophical understandings of the world, developed into a system (called honzogaku) that rivaled Western science in complexity—and then seemingly disappeared. Or did it? In The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, Federico Marcon recounts how Japanese scholars developed a sophisticated discipline of natural history analogous to Europe’s but created independently, without direct influence, and argues convincingly that Japanese natural history succumbed to Western science not because of suppression and substitution, as scholars traditionally have contended, but by adaptation and transformation.
           
The first book-length English-language study devoted to the important field of honzogaku, The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan will be an essential text for historians of Japanese and East Asian science, and a fascinating read for anyone interested in the development of science in the early modern era.

 

The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I. Introduction

• Chapter 1. Nature without Nature: Prolegomena to a History of Nature Studies in Early Modern Japan
• Chapter 2. The Bencao gangmu and the World It Created

Part II. Ordering Names: 1607-1715

• Chapter 3. Knowledge in Translation: Hayashi Razan and the Glossing of Bencao gangmu
• Chapter 4. Writing Nature’s Encyclopedia
• Chapter 5. The First Japanese Encyclopedias of Nature: Yamato honzō and Shobutsu ruisan

Part III. Inventorying Resources: 1716–1736

• Chapter 6. Tokugawa Yoshimune and the Study of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Japan
• Chapter 7. Inventorying Nature

Part IV. Nature’s Spectacles: The Long Eighteenth Century (1730s–1840s)

• Chapter 8. Nature’s Wonders: Natural History as Pastime
• Chapter 9. Nature in Cultural Circles
• Chapter 10. Nature Exhibited: Hiraga Gennai
• Chapter 11. Representing Nature: From “Truth” to “Accuracy”

Part V. The Making of Japanese Nature: The Bakumatsu Period

• Bakumatsu Honzōgaku

• Chapter 12. Bakumatsu Honzōgaku: The End of Eclecticism?

• Chapter 13. Nature as Accumulation Strategy: Satō Nobuhiro and the Synthesis of Honzōgaku and Keizaigaku

• Epilogue

 

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