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On July 12, Florian Keßler will present the sin-aps database at the Conference Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies organised by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Staatsbibliotkek zu Berlin. The relational database was developed with HEU...

On May 11, The Third International Workshop on Hermeneutics of Science and Technology was held in Wuhu, Anhui Province at Anhui Normal University 安徽师范大学. This  academic symposium was jointly organized by the School of Marxism 马克思主义学院 of Anhui Normal University (Prof. Wu Guolin), the Institute for Ad...

Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Construction Problems in Chinese translations of Euclid’s Elements Invited by Prof. Han Qi at the Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, Department of Chinese History and Culture, Prof. Andrea Bréard will give a talk on Understanding by Doing: Theorems and Cons...

Im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe des China-Insituts an der Universität Frankfurt hält Frau Prof. Dr. Bréard einen Vortrag zum Thema: Die chinesische Zahlenfabrik: Statistik im Spannungsfeld zwischen internationalen Standards und „chinesischen Eigenschaften“ Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts ...

During one month, in March 2024, Prof. Andrea Bréard will be Visiting Professor at the Centre de recherches historiques (CRH) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She will give four seminars during her stay: 1. Séminaire de Pablo Blitstein et Alessandro Stanziani,...

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...

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 ...

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 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...