Publications

Authored Books

• Bréard A., Wang 王 Y幼.:
  古典概率经典文献选编 (Selected Works on Classical Probability)
  Shanghai: 上海三联书店出版社, 2024
  ISBN: 9787542687623
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• Bréard A.:
  LI SHANLAN. Catégories analogues d'accumulations discrètes
  Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2023
  (Bibliothèque Chinoise, Vol.40)
  ISBN: 978-2-251-45491-7
  URL: https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251454917/categories-analogues-d-accumulations-discretes
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• Bréard A.:
  Nine Chapters on Mathematical Modernity. Essays on the Global Historical Entanglements of the Science of Numbers in China
  Cham: Springer, 2019
  ISBN: 9783319936949
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93695-6
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• Schillinger N.:
  The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers
  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2016
  ISBN: 978-1-4985-3168-9
  URL: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498531689/The-Body-and-Military-Masculinity-in-Late-Qing-and-Early-Republican-China-The-Art-of-Governing-Soldiers
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• Bréard A.:
  Re-Kreation eines mathematischen Konzeptes im chinesischen Diskurs: ‘Reihen’ vom 1. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert
  Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1999
  (Boethius, Vol.42)
  ISBN: 978-3-515-07451-3
  URL: https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Re-Kreation-eines-mathematischen-Konzeptes-im-chinesischen-Diskurs/9783515074513
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Edited Volumes

• Bréard A., Tamborini M. (ed.):
  Translation – Theory and Technology
  St. Petersburg: 2024
  (Technology and Language, Vol. 4(17))
  Open Access: https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/issue/17/
  URL: https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/issue/17/
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• Bréard A., Wang 王 Y幼., Hu 胡 X小. (ed.):
  早期统计学家传略分册
  Peking 北京: 2020
  (中华生物医学统计大辞典 (Chinese Dictionaries of Biology, Medicine, and Statistics))
  ISBN: 9787503794322
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• Bréard A. (ed.):
  Chimie et Révolution. La chimie au lendemain des révolutions. De l’après-Lavoisier à Gay-Lussac à l’Ecole polytechnique
  Palaiseau: 2012
  (Bulletin de la SABIX, Vol. 50)
  URL: http://www.sabix.org/bulletin/sabixb50.htm
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Journal Articles

• Bréard A., Christ S.:
  Introduction: Ciphering and Ruling Modern China’s Population
  In: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 6 (2025), p. 5 - 10
  ISSN: 2709-9946
  DOI: 10.25365/jeacs.2025.6.1.ab-sc
  URL: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/jeacs/article/view/9368
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• Bréard A., Christ S., Tang L.:
  Turning Society into Graphs: Early 20th Century Statistical Undertakings in Shanxi Province
  In: Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies 6 (2025), p. 91 -119
  ISSN: 2709-9946
  DOI: 10.25365/jeacs.2025.6.1.ab-sc-lt
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• Bréard A.:
  Introduction (Focus: Global Life Histories of Numbers)
  In: ISIS 116 (2025), p. 123-125
  ISSN: 0021-1753
  DOI: 10.1086/733986
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• Bréard A.:
  The (Local) Rise and (Global) Fall of the “Coefficient of Racial Likeness”
  In: ISIS 116 (2025), p. 158-167
  ISSN: 0021-1753
  DOI: 10.1086/733983
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• Bréard A.:
  Casting Away Doubt (Jueyi 決疑) or The Taming of Chance: Some Remarks on Equiprobability in Divination Techniques in Imperial China
  In: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine Advance Articles (2024), p. 1-28
  ISSN: 1562-918X
  DOI: 10.1163/26669323-20241039
  URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/east/aop/article-10.1163-26669323-20241039/article-10.1163-26669323-20241039.xml
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• Bréard A., Tamborini M.:
  Translation: The Interfaces of Language and Technology
  In: Technology and Language 5 (2024), p. 1-11
  ISSN: 2712-9934
  DOI: 10.48417/technolang.2024.04.01
  URL: https://soctech.spbstu.ru/en/article/2024.17.1/
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• Bréard A.:
  Divination with Hexagrams as Combinatorial Practice
  In: Zhouyi Studies 1 (2024), p. 171-189
  ISSN: 2993-0782
  DOI: 10.3726/ZhouyiStudies11_171
  URL: https://www.peterlang.com/document/1512476
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• Bréard A.:
  Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca's Collection in the Vatican Library. A Window into Mathematical Books in China (1907-1908)
  In: Vatican Library Review 2 (2023), p. 53-74
  ISSN: 2772-8633
  DOI: 10.1163/27728641-00201001
  URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/vlr/2/1/article-p53_3.xml
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• Bréard A.:
  Arunabh Ghosh, Making it Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China
  In: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 54 (2022), p. 323-327
  ISSN: 1562-918X
  DOI: 10.1163/26669323-20220007
  URL: https://brill.com/view/journals/east/54/2/article-p323_010.xml
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• Bréard A.:
  Charlotte-V Pollet, The Empty and the Full: Li Ye and the Way of Mathematics. Geometrical Procedures by Sections of Areas
  In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society 16 (2022), p. 136-139
  ISSN: 1875-2160
  DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.2020998
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• Bréard A.:
  «History of Science and Technology in China»: une histoire vue de l’intérieur de la Chine
  In: Revue des Questions Scientifiques 193 (2022), p. 157-164
  ISSN: 0035-2160
  URL: https://www.rqs.be/app/views/revue.php?id=553
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• Bréard A.:
  Numbers and Narratives — or : When Russell meets Zhu Shijie to discuss Philosophy of Mathematics
  In: Laval Theologique et Philosophique 78 (2022), p. 365–384
  ISSN: 0023-9054
  DOI: 10.7202/1097879ar
  URL: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1097879ar
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• Bréard A.:
  Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia : Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches / edited by M. Mak Bill and Eric Huntington. – Leiden: Brill, 2022
  In: Revue des Questions Scientifiques (2022), p. 463 – 465
  ISSN: 0035-2160
  Open Access: https://www.rqs.be/app/views/revue.php?id=557
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• Bréard A.:
  Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of a Chinese Race
  In: Histoire et Mesure 37 (2022), p. 71-98
  ISSN: 0982-1783
  DOI: 10.4000/histoiremesure.15764
  URL: https://journals.openedition.org/histoiremesure/15789
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• Schillinger N.:
  Microbic Mass Destruction - Biological Warfare and Epidemic Prevention in Republican China
  In: East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2022)
  ISSN: 1875-2160
  DOI: 10.1080/18752160.2021.1984009
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• Bréard A., Cook CA.:
  Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts
  In: Archive For History of Exact Sciences 74 (2020), p. 313-343
  ISSN: 0003-9519
  DOI: 10.1007/s00407-019-00245-9
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• Schillinger N.:
  Playing soldiers: The war game in late qing and Republican China
  In: Journal of Chinese Military History 9 (2020), p. 38-64
  ISSN: 2212-7445
  DOI: 10.1163/22127453-BJA10003
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• Bréard A.:
  (Philo-)Logica-Mathematica – Giovanni Vacca's (1872-1953) attempts of translation between mathematical formulas and Chinese text via simplified Latin
  In: Geschichte der Germanistik 55/56 (2019), p. 16 - 33
  ISSN: 1613-0758
  DOI: 10.5771/9783835343740-16
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• Schillinger N.:
  Scarred Dragon. Historical Trauma Narratives in the Graphic Novels of Li Kunwu and Gene Luen Yan
  In: ImageTexT : Interdisciplinary Comics Studies Volume 10 (2018)
  ISSN: 1549-6732
  Open Access: https://imagetextjournal.com/scarred-dragon-historical-trauma-narratives-in-the-graphic-novels-of-li-kunwu-and-gene-luen-yang/
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• Bréard A.:
  Euclide en Chine ou: comment faire communiquer différentes cultures mathématiques ?
  In: Repères 109 (2017), p. 5 - 22
  ISSN: 1157-285X
  Open Access: https://publimath.univ-irem.fr/numerisation/WR/IWR17013/IWR17013.pdf
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• Bréard A.:
  Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter by Roger Hart
  In: Mathematical Intelligencer 38 (2016), p. 80-82
  ISSN: 0343-6993
  DOI: 10.1007/s00283-015-9598-x
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• Bréard A.:
  What Diagrams Argue in Late Imperial Chinese Combinatorial Texts
  In: Early Science and Medicine 20 (2015), p. 241-264
  ISSN: 1573-3823
  DOI: 10.1163/15733823-00203p02
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• Bréard A.:
  Homo ludens mathematicus: La quantification du hasard dans les pratiques combinatoires en Chine [Homo ludens mathematicus: The Quantification of Chance in Combinatorial Practices in China]
  In: Études Chinoises 33 (2014), p. 73--102
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• Bréard A.:
  War und ist Mathematik in China anders? Ein Ausblick auf historische Narration und neue Trends
  In: Mitteilungen der Mathematischen Gesellschaft in Hamburg 33 (2013)
  ISSN: 0340-4358
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• Bréard A., Wang 王 Y幼.:
  统计学在近代中国的演变——从社会统计到数理统计
  In: Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University (Philosophy and Social Sciences) (2010), p. 61-67
  ISSN: 1008-7095
  URL: http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-SHJX201003009.htm
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• Bréard A.:
  Robert Hart and China's statistical revolution
  In: Modern Asian Studies 40 (2006), p. 605 - 629
  ISSN: 0026-749X
  DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X06002101
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Book Contributions

• Bréard A.:
  “Heavenly Patterns” and Everyday Life in a Nutshell: Astronomy in Pre-Modern Chinese Handy Encyclopaedias
  In: Aura Heydenreich, Florian Klaeger, Klaus Mecke, Dirk Vanderbeke and Jörn Wilms (ed.): Writing the Heavens: Celestial Observation in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 245-270 (Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften, Vol.10)
  DOI: 10.1515/9783111610863-013
  URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111610863-013/html
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• Bréard A.:
  Hexagrams and Mathematics: Symbolic Approaches to Prediction from the Song to the Qing
  In: Tze-ki Hon (ed.): The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 192-220 (Prognostication in History, Vol.8)
  ISBN: 978-90-04-50003-7
  DOI: 10.1163/9789004500037_009
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• Bréard A., Cook CA.:
  Stalk and Other Divination Traditions Prior to the Changes Canon: Views from Newly-Discovered Texts
  In: Tze-ki Hon (ed.): The Other Yijing. The Book of Changes in Chinese History, Politics, and Everyday Life, Leiden: Brill, 2021, p. 23-68 (Prognostication in History, Vol.8)
  ISBN: 978-90-04-50003-7
  DOI: 10.1163/9789004500037_003
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• Bréard A.:
  Inductive Arguments in the Midst of Smoke: “Proving” Rhetorically and Visually That Algorithms Work
  In: Martin Hofmann, Joachim Kurtz, Ari Daniel Levine (ed.): Powerful Arguments - Standards of Validity in Late Imperial China, Leiden: Brill, 2020, p. 234-276 (Sinica Leidensia, Vol.146)
  ISBN: 9789004423626
  DOI: 10.1163/9789004423626_007
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• Bréard A.:
  Statistics
  In: Howard Chiang (ed.): Human Sciences in China, Brill, 2019, p. 303–336 (China Studies, Vol.40)
  ISBN: 9789004397620
  DOI: 10.1163/9789004397620_017
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• Bréard A.:
  400 Millionen - Globale Wirkungen einer mächtigen Zahl
  In: Haas, Stefan; Schneider, Michael C.; Bilo, Nicolas (ed.): Die Zählung der Welt. Kulturgeschichte der Statistik vom 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019, p. 215 - 232 (Studien zur Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte, Vol.32)
  ISBN: 978-3-515-12117-0
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• Schillinger N.:
  Andere Mythen. Geschichte, Trauma und Nation in Boxers and Saints
  In: Tanja Zimmermann (ed.): Geschichte und Mythos in Comics und Graphic Novels, Berlin: Ch. A. Bachmann Verlag, 2019, p. 143-156
  ISBN: 143-156
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• Bréard A.:
  How to quantify the value of domino combinations? Divination and shifting rationalities in late imperial China
  In: Michael Lackner (ed.): Coping with the Future, Brill Academic Publishers, 2018, p. 499-529 (Sinica Leidensia, Vol.138)
  DOI: 10.1163/9789004356788_020
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• Bréard A.:
  Numbers as Signs. Recreative reflections on conceptual entanglements between mathematics, divination and language in the modern era
  In: Iwo Amelung, Joachim Kurtz (ed.): Reading the Signs: Language, History, and Prognostication. Festschrift for Michael Lackner, München: Iudicium, 2018, p. 429 - 453
  ISBN: 978-3-86205-615-6
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• Schillinger N.:
  Militärische Professionalisierung und Inszenierung. Das taktische Kriegsspiel in China in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
  In: Karen Aydin (ed.): Games of Empires. Kulturhistorische Konnotationen von Brettspielen in transnationalen und imperialen Kontexten, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2018
  ISBN: 978-3643138804
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• Bréard A.:
  Das Verhältnis von indischer, arabischer und westlicher Mathematik zueinander – ist die Mathematik kulturabhängig?
  In: Otfried Höffe, Jörg Hacker (ed.): Wissenschaften im interkulturellen Dialog – Sciences in the Intercultural Dialogue, Halle: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2017, p. 81 - 98 (Nova Acta Leopoldina, Vol.414)
  ISBN: 978-3-8047-3705-1
  URL: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/publications/detailview/publication/wissenschaften-im-interkulturellen-dialog-sciences-in-the-intercultural-dialogue/
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• Bréard A.:
  Meng Sen and Shen Linyi: two actors, two careers in the history of modern statistics in China
  In: Catherine Jami (ed.): Human Mobility and the Circulation of Scientific and Technical Knowledge in Late Imperial China, Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2017, p. 267 - 293 (Bibliothèque de l'Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Vol.XXXIX)
  ISBN: 978-2-85757-077-6
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• Bréard A.:
  Logik und Universalsprache - Leibniz’ Ideen 200 Jahre später
  In: Martin Grötschel, Eberhard Knobloch, Juliane Schiffers, Mimmi Woisnitza, Günter M. Ziegler (ed.): Vision als Aufgabe. Das Leibniz-Universum im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2016, p. 277 - 297
  ISBN: 978-3-939818-67-0
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• Bréard A., Horiuchi A.:
  History of mathematics education in East Asia in premodern times
  In: Alexander Karp, Gert Schubring (ed.): Handbook on the History of Mathematics Education, New York: Springer, 2014, p. 153-174
  ISBN: 978-1-4614-9154-5
  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9155-2_8
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• Bréard A.:
  On the Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge in Versified Form in China
  In: Alain Bernard, Christine Proust (ed.): Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives, Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2014, p. 155-185 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol.301)
  ISBN: 978-94-007-5121-7
  DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5122-4_7
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• Bréard A.:
  China
  In: Robin Wilson, John J. Watkins (ed.): Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern, Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 65-82
  ISBN: 9780199656592
  DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199656592.003.0003
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• Schillinger N.:
  Survey the People. The Emergence of Population Statistics as Technology of Government in Early 20th Century China.
  In: Antje Flüchter Susan Richter (ed.): Structures on the Move. Technologies of Governance in Transcultural Encounters, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012, p. 87-103
  ISBN: 978-3642192876
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• Bréard A.:
  Usages et destins des savoirs mathématiques dans les Encyclopédies aux dix mille trésors des Ming
  In: Annick Horiuchi (ed.): Pratiques lettrées au Japon et en Chine XVIIe-XIXe siècle, 2011, p. 103 - 123 (Études Japonaises, Vol.V)
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• Bréard A.:
  Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias
  In: Florence Bretelle-Establet (ed.): Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science, Springer, 2010, p. 305-329 (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science book series, Vol.265)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
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Conference Contributions

• Bréard A.:
  Surveying the Coast: Theory and Practice as Reflected in Mathematical Sources and Maps
  海洋、空間意識與文化交會: 第二屆輿圖學國際學術研討會 (Oceans, Consciousness of Space and Cultural Interflow: The Second International Symposium of Cartography) (Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica, National Palace Museum and National Tsing-Hua University, 27. November 2012 - 29. November 2012)
  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4622.6007
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• Bréard A.:
  A summation algorithm from 11th century China. Possible relations between structure and argument
  4th Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2008 (, 15. June 2008 - 20. June 2008)
  In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2008
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69407-6_8
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Thesis

• Bréard A.:
  Reform, Bureaucratic Expansion and Production of Numbers: Statistics in China at the Turn of the 20th Century (Habilitation, 2008)
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Miscellaneous

• Bréard A.:
  Jean-Claude Martzloff: Le calendrier chinois: structure et calculs (104 av. J.-C.-1644). Indétermination céleste et réforme permanente. La construction chinoise officielle du temps quotidien discret à partir d’un temps mathématique caché, linéaire et continu
  In: Historia Mathematica 39 (2012), p. 335-338
  ISSN: 0315-0860
  DOI: 10.1016/j.hm.2012.01.001
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