Yabuuchi Kiyoshi

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Yabuuchi Kiyoshi ( Japanese 薮 内 清 ; * February 12, 1906 ; † June 2, 2000 ), often also in Kunrei spelling Kiyosi Yabuuti, was a Japanese historian of science . He is considered a pioneer in the field of Chinese mathematics and astronomy history .

Life

Old Chinese star map, ca.700 AD

Yabuuchi taught at Kyōto University . His internationally best-known work on the history of Chinese mathematics, Une histoire des mathématiques chinoises , was translated into French by Kaoru Baba and Catherine Jami. During his intensive research on the history of Chinese astronomy, he also examined the influences of Islamic astronomy and the relationship between Indian and Chinese astronomy. Michio Yano emphasized strong similarities between the way Yabuuchi works and the methodology of the mathematician and astronomer Otto Neugebauer :

“In many respects I found similarities between Neugebauer and Yabuuti. Both were very competent in mathematics and their mathematical insight led them to important discoveries in the history of the exact sciences even before reading the original texts. Both, however, asked for collaboration with those who knew the languages ​​concerned in order to apply the same rigorous method to history as to the exact sciences. "

- Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences, Editorial to Volume 2, by Michio Yano, 2001

Awards and honors

In 1969 he received the prestigious Asahi Prize in 1972 Yabuuchi was the George Sarton Medal Award, the highest prestigious award for the History of Science that of George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson founded History of Science Society (HSS). In honor of the scientist and at the suggestion of his student Kiichirō Furukawa , the asteroid No. 2652 discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in 1953 bears the name Yabuuti .

Publications (selection)

  • Indian and Arabian astronomy in China . In: Silver Jubilee Volume of the Zinbun-Kagaku-Kenkyusyo Kyoto University , Kyoto 1954, p. 585
  • Comparative Aspects of the Introduction of Western Astronomy into China and Japan, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries . In: Chung Chi Journal, May 1968, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 155f
  • Kaoru Baba (practice), Catherine Jami (practice): Une histoire des mathématiques chinoises. Éditions Belin, Pour la Science, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7011-2404-2
  • Granting the Seasons: The Chinese Astronomical Reform of 1280, With a Study of Its Many Dimensions and a Translation of Its Records. (Editor, together with Nathan Sivin and Shigeru Nakayama.) Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-78955-2

literature

  • The 1972 George Sarton Medal Awarded to Kiyoshi Yabuuchi . In: Isis 64, 1973, p. 103.
  • Catherine Jami: In Memory of Prof. Kiyosi Yabuuti Presentation . In: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 18, 2001, ISSN  1562-918X , pp. 10-12.
  • Yabuuchi Kiyoshi as a Historian of Exact Sciences . In: East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine 18, 2001, ISSN  1562-918X , pp. 13-19.
  • Kiyoshi Yabuuchi . In: Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences 51, 2001, ISSN  0003-9810 , pp. 155–157.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Une histoire des mathématiques chinoises , book information, French
  2. ↑ SCIAMVS Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences ( Memento of December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 28 kB) Michio Yano: Editorial to Volume 2
  3. ^ Dictionary of Minor Planets
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Yabuuchi is the family name, Kiyoshi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Yabuuchi, Kiyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 薮 内 清 (Japanese); Kiyosi Yabuuti (Kunrei notation)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese historian of mathematics, astronomy and science
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1906
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2000