Bréard A (2010)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2010
Publisher: Springer
Edited Volumes: Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science book series
Book Volume: 265
Pages Range: 305-329
URI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_10
Since the Song dynasty the official bibliographic monographs referenced an independent category of works generally translated as “encyclopedias” (leishu類書, lit. “books topically arranged”), a classification developed by the Confucianist Zheng Qiao 鄭樵 (1104–1162). The leishu sections included a heterogeneous range of collections of examination literature, biographical dictionaries, primers in how to read classical literature, handbooks on the art of letter writing, pharmacopoeias, geographical surveys, administrative and procedural manuals, and the like. Although the first work officially considered as a leishu in this category was compiled during the third century under official auspices, it was only during the Song dynasty that the widespread use of printing facilitated the task of compiling such topically arranged compilations of books or excerpts from a number of sources.
APA:
Bréard, A. (2010). Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias. In Florence Bretelle-Establet (Eds.), Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science. (pp. 305-329). Springer.
MLA:
Bréard, Andrea. "Knowledge and Practice of Mathematics in Late Ming Daily life Encyclopedias." Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science. Ed. Florence Bretelle-Establet, Springer, 2010. 305-329.
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