Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives

Contributors.- General Introduction; Alain Bernard and Christine Proust.- Part I: Holistic Approach.- The teaching context and reading from the 16th to the 19th centuries: The role of the memorization of texts in learning; Anne-Marie Chartier.- Teaching and learning medicine and exorcism at Uruk during the Hellenistic period; Philippe Clancier.- Part II: Critical Approach.- Does a master always write for his students? Some evidence from Old Babylonian scribal schools; Christine Proust.- In what sense did Theon’s commentary on the Almagest have a didactic purpose?; Alain Bernard.- Part III: Comparative Approach.- Relationships between French “practical arithmetics” and teaching?; Stéphane Lamassé.- On the transmission of mathematical knowledge in versified form in China; Andrea Bréard.- Mathematical Progress or Mathematical Teaching? Bilingualism and Printing In European Renaissance Mathematics; Giovanna C. Cifoletti.- Part IV: Zooming Approach.- Leonardo of Pisa and the Liber Abaci.Biographical elements and the project of the work; Eva Caianiello.- Didactical Dimensions of Mathematical Problems: Weighted Distribution in a Vietnamese Mathematical Treatise; Alexei Volkov.- Learning and Teaching Medicine in Late Imperial China; Florence Bretelle-Establet.- Post Face.- On the sources of the historian of science from the perspective of a history of education; Karine Chemla.- Index.