Asia, Europe, and the Emergence of Modern Science: Knowledge Crossing Boundaries

PART I: TOWARD DIALOGICAL HISTORY Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism; J.M.Hobson A Passage to Infinity: The Contribution of Kerala to Modern Mathematics; G.G.Joseph Copernicus, Arabic Science and Scientific (R)evolutions; M.Kokowski Time Atomism and Ash'arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism Revisited; R.T.W.Arthur Pramanas, Proofs and the Yukti of Classical Indic Science; R.Narasimha PART II: SCIENCE, RATIONALITY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE Traditional Knowledge and the Smallpox Eradication Campaign; J.R.Brown The Dialogical Copernican Revolution: Implications for Scientific Method; A.Bala How Indigenous are 'Indigenous Sciences'? The Case of 'Islamic Sciences'; A.Paya The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Rise of Modern Science; A.Khursheed Science, Technology and Civilization Reconsidered; A.Brennan PART III: FORGING NEW KNOWLEDGE The Relevance of Classical Chinese Medicine; K.Lee Diverse Cultural Contributions to a 'Science of Religion': An Emerging Asia-Europe Dialogue on the Scientific Study of Religion; D.Wiebe Reclaiming Tradition: Implications of a Knowledge Indigenization Perspective for Asian Education; S.Gopinathan Southeast Asia's Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae; V.R.Savage