Christopher Cullen

Christopher Cullen is a British science historian and mathematician of Chinese science.

Cullen is a graduate engineer ( University of Oxford ), but then received a PhD in Sinology from the University of London . From 1977 to 1981 he was a research fellow at Cambridge University (Clare Hall). From 1988 he was a lecturer in East Asian history of science at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Since 2003 he has been Director of the Needham Research Institute (NRI) at Cambridge University, where he has been an honorary professor in East Asian history of science since 2007 and a Fellow of Darwin College since 2005. He has been visiting professor in China several times.

He is particularly concerned with the history of mathematics, astronomy and medicine in China. He has been Secretary of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine since its inception in 1990 and President from 2005 . He is a corresponding member of the International Academy for the History of Science and holds an honorary professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fonts

• Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China. The Zhou bi suan jing. Cambridge University Press, 1996 (edition of one of the oldest Chinese mathematical texts, the Zhoubi suanjing , with commentary on the Chinese history of mathematics and astronomy)
• The Dragon's Ascent. Hong Kong 2001 (Chinese cultural and scientific history, book to accompany a television series of the same name)
• with Vivienne Lo: Medieval Chinese medicine. The Dunhuang medical manuscripts. Routledge 2004 (texts from the cave library of the Mogao caves of Dunhuang , which Aurel Stein found)
• The Suan Shu Shu Image, "Writings on reckoning": Rewriting the history of early Chinese mathematics in the light of an excavated manuscript . In: Historia Mathematica , Volume 34, 2007, pp. 10-44

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