Scientific Sources and Teaching Contexts Throughout History: Problems and Perspectives

1. General Introduction
Alain Bernard, Christine Proust

Part I. Holistic Approach

2. The Teaching Context and Reading from the 16th to the 19th Centuries: The Role of the Memorization of Texts in Learning
Anne-Marie Chartier

3. Teaching and Learning Medicine and Exorcism at Uruk During the Hellenistic Period
Philippe Clancier

Part II. Critical Approach

4. Does a Master Always Write for His Students? Some Evidence from Old Babylonian Scribal Schools
Christine Proust

5. In What Sense Did Theon’s Commentary on the Almagest Have a Didactic Purpose?
Alain Bernard

Part III. Comparative Approach

6. Relationships Between French “Practical Arithmetics” and Teaching?
Stéphane Lamassé

7. On the Transmission of Mathematical Knowledge in Versified Form in China
Andrea Bréard

8. Mathematical Progress or Mathematical Teaching? Bilingualism and Printing in European Renaissance Mathematics
Giovanna C. Cifoletti

Part IV. Zooming Approach

9. Leonardo of Pisa and the Liber Abaci. Biographical Elements and the Project of the Work
Eva Caianiello

10. Didactical Dimensions of Mathematical Problems: Weighted Distribution in a Vietnamese Mathematical Treatise
Alexei Volkov

11. Learning and Teaching Medicine in Late Imperial China
Florence Bretelle-Establet

Part V. Postface

12. On the Sources of the Historian of Science from the Perspective of a History of Education
Karine Chemla

Keywords: Science, general, History of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Science