Overlapping cosmologies of pre-modern Asia

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K01118
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology/History of science and technology
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: Mak Bill (麥文彪) 京都大学, 白眉センター, 特定准教授 (50747863)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 武田 時昌 京都大学, 人文科学研究所, 教授 (50179644)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Yano Michio 京都産業大学, 名誉教授 (40065868)
• Research Collaborator: Ueda Masahiro 京都大学, 非常勤講師 ; Umebayashi Seiji 熊本県立大学, 名誉教授 ; Okada Masahiko 天理大学, 教授 ; Kobayashi Hiroyuki 中部大学, 准教授 ; Sasaki Satoshi 大阪府立大, 特別研究員 ; Shimizu Hiroko 大正大学, 講師 ; Bai Yunfei 大阪府立大学, 客員研究員 ; Hiraoka Ryuji 熊本県立大学, 准教授 ; Maehara Ayano 関西大学, 非常勤講師 ; Miyajima Kazuhiko 中之島科学研究所, 研究員
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 科学史 / 宇宙科学 / 文化交流史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

1. Collection of research materials: A number of field surveys on extant astral documents were conducted in China, Japan, India, Nepal and Thailand. Together with a close examination of the Pingree’s archive at Brown University and the American Philosophical Society, findings were reported in 5 journal articles and 19 conference talks.
2. Interdisciplinary scholarly network: Members of the Buddhist Astronomy Research Seminar仏教天文研究会 (founded at Doshisha University in 2003) completed the analysis of Entsuu's astronomical treatise 佛國暦象編 (2015-2017). Furthermore, as an effort to promote exchange among Japanese and international scholars in the field, a number of conference panels and conferences were organized, with most notably the three-day Kyoto University Symposium held in October, 2017: Traditional Sciences in Asia 2017 -- East-West Encounter in the Science of Heaven and Earth, where over 30 talks/posters were presented with over 60 participants.

Free Research Field

科学史