Index 583
heavenly unknown ( tianyuan ‘celestial
origin’), 57
Hebrew science, 2
Heiberg, Johann, 20–8, 32, 85, 86, 89, 113, 130,
133, 148, 279
edition of Archimedes’ writings, 24–6, 86,
163–204
edition of the Conics , 145
edition of Th eodosius’ Spherics , 139
edition of the Elements , 20–4, 70, 74, 77–8,
130, 136, 138–9, 141–5, 153–5
philological choices and their impact on the
editing of the proofs, 21, 22, 23, 25–6,
82–3, 99
Heinz, B., 229, 257
Helbing, M.O., 207
Hellenocentrism, 282–3
Hermann of Carinthia, 86, 117, 127, 130, 133
Hero of Alexandria, 71, 76, 85, 104, 111, 113,
115, 117, 282, 283, 285, 290, 298, 300,
306, 345, 362
Dioptra , 139
Herodotus, 294, 302
heuristics, 308
heuristic patterns of mathematical creation,
277
Hilbert, D., 17, 65, 100, 312
Hiller, E., 311
Hilprecht, H. V., 405, 421
Hindus, 5, 265, 274, 279
‘apt to numerical computations’, 284
Hippias, 296–7
Hippocrates of Chios, 295–6, 304
Hippocratic treatises, 301–2
historiography, 274, 291–2, 302
‘antiquarian’ style of scholarship, 279
evolution of European historiography of
science with respect to ‘non-Western’
proofs, 4–14, 20, 50, 53
computation, 9–10, 12, 40, 60
infl uences in mathematics, 53–4, 282,
284–8
mathematical education, 56
mathematical proof, 1, 4–14, 19–28, 53,
277, 280, 289
‘non-Western’ mathematics, 7–9, 260, 266,
274–92
of Islamic science, 287, 292
of mathematics, 4–14, 19–28, 53, 56, 135–40,
248, 252, 256, 258, 260, 266
of science, 5, 10, 11, 13, 26
presentist historiography and Platonic
approach, 279
history of French Orientalism, 230, 275, 292
history of mathematics, 261–3, 277–9, 289
‘cultural’, 279
history of the philosophy of science, 5, 11, 13,
27
Hoche, R., 311
H o ff mann, J. E., 279
Holwell, J. Z., 257
homogenization qi , 464, 467–8, 473
Horng Wann-sheng, 57, 65
Høyrup, J., 1, 9, 12, 37, 39–44, 48, 49, 53, 60, 65,
343–4, 362–83, 398
Huangdi Jiuzhang Suanjing Xicao
, 573
Hultsch, F., 279, 339
hydrostatics, 305
Hypatia, 345, 350
hypotheses, 301, 303, 305, 503
Hypsicles, 324–5
Iamblichus, 299
icon, see diagram
Ideler, L., 278
igi, 390–1
Ikeyama, S., 487, 508
imagination, 282, 290
imperialism, 10, 291–2
incontrovertibility, 2, 4, 14, 15, 18, 300, 304,
306–8
Inden, R., 230, 257
India, 5, 6–9, 11–12, 14, 16, 18, 37, 51–3, 59, 67,
260–3, 267, 272–3, 482, 487, 508
Europe’s knowledge of Indian mathematics,
11–12, 275–7
history of Indian astronomy, 237, 241, 258,
260–2, 267, 272–3, 494–8
history of Indian mathematics, 228, 241, 246,
256, 260–3, 267, 272–3, 487–508
Indian algebra, 6, 228, 231, 234, 238, 242, 244,
245, 246
origins of Indian mathematics, 231, 233–4
representations of, 229
Indians, 260, 264, 269, 280
‘computing skills’, 282
‘Indians’ mode of thought’, 280
‘less sensitive ( feinfühlig ) logic’, 283
‘more intuitive rationality’, 280
Indology, 257
British, 230
French, 231
German, 6, 261, 273
induction, 11, 282, 312–13, 316–18
Institute for Han-Nom Studies, 524