Year: 2023

Conceptualizing ‘One’ (一): Working Towards a ‘Unified’ Understanding  Similar to many languages in the world, numbers display a variety of meanings in Chinese and other East Asian languages that borrowed the characters associated with them from Han China. As Marcel Granet (1934) who discusses num...

A new book by Prof. Andrea Bréard has been published in the book series Bibliothèque Chinoise (Paris: Les Belles Lettres). On 704 pages, you will find a Chinese edition and a French translation of Li Shanlan's Duoji bilei 垛積比類 (Analogical Categories of Discrete Accumulations) from 1867, with a histo...

Freitag, den 24. November - Sonntag, den 26. November 2023, im Kollegienhaus, Universitätsstraße 15, 91054 Erlangen. Die diesjährige Tagung der "Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien" (DVCS) findet zum ersten Mal an der FAU statt, organisiert vom Lehrstuhl für Sinologie mit Schwerpunkt für Geist...

Eberhard Knobloch’s work is a pillar in the history of mathematics as it is practised today. The richness of his contributions attests to the many fruitful collaborations he was able to establish during his career, within a scientific community of which he is undoubtedly a driving force. For his ...

In his book Trust in Numbers, Ted Porter said that journalists and officials “have very limited ability” to rework the contingent statistical categories into different ones. This observation could strike a chord with those who saw how Western news (and Chinese social media) responded to China’s deci...

The project “Networks of knowledge about China: on the analysis and creation of complex disciplinary spaces” (directed by Prof. Iwo Amelung, Prof. Andrea Bréard, and Prof. Tiziana Lioi) concerns the history of science and disciplines: it deals with actors in the circulation of knowledge with China s...

The Chair for Sinology with a Focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China is currently hiring a working student. You will join the sin-aps project for the design and implementation of a database containing bibliographical information for Chinese mathematical texts. For more details, see ...

The 16th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (16th ICHSEA) took place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 21st-25th August 2023. It was organised under the auspices of Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, on behalf of the International Society for the History of East Asian Sc...

The research group on philosophical translation at Humboldt University under direction of Prof. Dr. Michael Beaney (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN AND HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN) has organized a "Workshop on Philosophical Translation" on July 8, 2023. Prof. Andrea Bréard will present a paper with the ti...

A new publication by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title "Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca’s Collection in the Vatican Library" appeared in The Vatican Library Review (VLR). This article reconstructs an important but specific portion of Giovanni Vacca’s personal library: his books related to math...