Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

46 240. Indian contexts
In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 25 (2006): 110–
121.
841. WANG Lingling. “Mining and Smelting Technologies
for Gold and Silver in Song Dynasty.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu
23 (2004): 356–363.
842. ZHAO, Hansheng. “Further Research on the
Ancient Dobby Machine in China.” [Translated title.]
In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 22 (2003): 105–
116.
This article reports research into ancient Chinese textile
history and the technology of the loom.
843. ZHU Xia. “The Salt Production of Yunnan’s
Minority Nationalities as Seen from Diannan Yanfa
Tu.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi
Yanjiu 23 (2004): 132–147.
230-163. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
844. MIN Zong-dian. “A Record of Ming-Qing
Agricultural Treatises Awaiting Inquiry.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 24 (2003):
366–376.
845. SHIUE, Carol H. “The Political Economy of
Famine Relief in China, 1740–1820.” J. Interdis.
Hist. 36 (2005): 33–55.
846. YOU Xiuling. “The Translation of Xia Xiao
Zheng into Modern Chinese and Its Evaluation.”
[Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu
23 (2004): 64–74.
847. ZHAI Qian-xiang. “The Spread of Potato in
China During the 16th to 19th Century.” [Translated
title.] In Chinese. Zhongguo Keji Shiliao 25 (2004):
49–53.
240. INDIAN CONTEXTS
240-1. GENERAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE
848. BABER, Zaheer. “Science, Colonialism and
the Production of Science and Modernity in India.”
Special Issue: Colonial Science [ref. 658]. Hist.
Scientiarum 15 (2005): 139–158.
849. DODSON, Michael S. “Translating Science,
Translating Empire: The Power of Language in Colonial
North India.” Comp. Stud. Soc. Hist. 47 (2005):
809–835.
850. HABIB, S. Irfan. “Transmission of Science
through Translation: A Study of Urdu in 19th and
Early 20th Century India.” In CROZET and HORI-
UCHI [ref. 1961], 237–250.
851. KHAN, Iqbal Ghani. “The Awadh Scientific
Renaissance and the Role of the French: c. 1750–
1820.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 38 (2003): 273–301.
852. KUMAR, Deepak. Science and the Raj: A Study
of British India. Updated 2nd ed. (xix + 309 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Delhi/New York: Oxford Univ. Press,
2006. ISBN: 0195680030.
Extends coverage from 1857 to 1947.
853. NANDA, Meera. “Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism,
and ‘Vedic Science.’ ” In KOERTGE
[ref. 230], 220–235.
240-3. SOURCES OF INFORMATION
854. SARMA, K.V. Science Texts in Sanskrit in the
Manuscripts Repositories of Kerala and Tamilanadu
[i.e. Tamilnadu]. Samskrtavarsasmrtigranthamala,
1. (240 pp.; index.) New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit
Sansthan, 2002. ISBN: 8186111042.
Reviews: [ref. R801]
240-20. GENERAL WORKS ON SCIENCE AND ITS
INTERACTION WITH SOCIETY AND CULTURE
855. SINHA, Jagdish N. “Science and Culture under
Colonialism.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 39 (2004): 101–
119.
240-102. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY AND
HISTORY OF IDEAS
856. MIURA Hirofumi. “The Concept of Time and
Space in Indian Realism—On kāla, ākā´sa and di´s in
Pra´sastapādabhas. ya.” [Translated title.] In Japanese.
Kagakusi Ken. (Hist. Sci.) 41 (2002): 88–97.
240-103. MATHEMATICS
857. ACHARYA, Subrata Kumar. “Dani’s Hypothesis
on the Symbol Formation in Brāhmī.” Indian J. Hist.
Sci. 39 (2004): 147–156.
On A. H. Dani’s thesis regarding internal derivation of numerical
symbols.
858. ANSARI, S. M. Razaullah. “Hindus’ Scientific
Contributions in Indo-Persian.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 40
(2005): 205–221.
The focus of this paper is on mathematics, astronomy, and
astrology.
859. GUPTA, R. C. “Mystical Mathematics of Ancient
Planets.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 40 (2005): 31–53.
860. JAIN, Pushpa Kumari. (Ed.) The Sūryaprakās. a
of Sūryadāsa. English translation and commentary
for the chapters Upodghata, sadvidhaprakarana and
Kuttakadhikara. Gaekwad’s Oriental Series, 182.
Vadodara: Oriental Institute, 2001.
Classical commentary on Bijaganita of Bhaskaracarya’s work
on Hindu mathematics. Text in Sanskrit and English.
861. KICHENASSAMY, Satyanad. “Baudhayana’s
Rule for the Quadrature of the Circle.” Hist. Math. 33
(2006): 149–183.
862. KNUDSEN, Toke Lindegaard. “Square Roots
in the ´Sulbasūtras.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 40 (2005):
107–111.
863. ZHAO Jiwei. “Revisiting Bhaskara’s Formula
of the Sphere’s Surface Area.” [Translated title.] In
Chinese. Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu 25 (2006): 131–138.
240-104. MUSIC
864. SATYANARAYANA, R. “Vīn. ā Keyboards—
Origin.” Indian J. Hist. Sci. 39 (2004): 1–10.
On keyboards of a stringed instrument originating around
1100 A.D.
240-110. ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY
865. ABHYANKAR, K. D. “Earliest Vedic Calendar.”
Indian J. Hist. Sci. 40 (2005): 1–7.
866. ABHYANKAR, K. D. “Origin of the Moving
Eccentric Circle Planetary Model in India.” Indian J.
Hist. Sci. 39 (2004): 429–439.