Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- 28 China
- 29 Japan
- 30 Korea
- 31 Indochina
- 32 Philippines
- 33 East and Southeast Asia: A Commentary
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- Index
33 - East and Southeast Asia: A Commentary
from East and Southeast Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2020
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History of Science
- The Cambridge History Of Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- General Editors’ Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Transnational, International, and Global
- Part II National and Regional
- Europe
- Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia
- East and Southeast Asia
- 28 China
- 29 Japan
- 30 Korea
- 31 Indochina
- 32 Philippines
- 33 East and Southeast Asia: A Commentary
- United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania
- Latin America
- Index
Summary
Lorraine Daston has likened the history of science to European self-portraiture. Since the Enlightenment, the history of science has been used by European intellectuals to highlight the uniqueness of their own culture, even though the three inventions that Francis Bacon cited as proof of the superiority of the Moderns over the Ancients, namely gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and printing, were all originally imported from China. The sciences were seen as proof of European superiority over non-Europeans.
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- The Cambridge History of Science , pp. 626 - 638Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020