Ruselle Meade
Biographic Data
| ID | 1188923 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruselle Meade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruselle |
| FAMILY NAME | Meade |
| SIGNATURE | MEADE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1428-3489 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Minakata Kumagusu in London
The Japanese biologist and ethnologist Minakata Kumagusu has achieved a degree of celebrity in Japan for being the first Asian contributor to the British scientific magazine Nature . However, although Minakata's many contributions to Nature from 1893 to 1914 provided British readers with rare insight into Asian scientific achievements, he is seldom discussed in history of science scholarship produced by American, British and European researchers.…
Science across the Meiji divide
Histories of Japanese science have been integral in affirming the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as the starting point of modern Japan. Vernacular genres, characterized as "premodern," have therefore largely been overlooked by historians of science, regardless of when they were published. Paradoxically, this has resulted in the marginalization of the very works through which most people encountered science. This article addresses this oversight and it…
Gabriele Tola, John Fryer and The Translator's Vade-mecum
Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Translating Technology in Japan's Meiji Enlightenment, 1870–1879
The enthusiasm for translation during the early Meiji period is well documented. However, beyond Fukuzawa Yukichi, the publishing sensation of the era, little is known about those who translated works on technology or their motives for doing so. During the 1870s, the heyday of Japan's Meiji enlightenment, over fifty works on technology were translated from Western languages. Although the government often spearheaded this drive, many translators t…
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Translating Technology in Japan's Meiji Enlightenment, 1870–1879
The enthusiasm for translation during the early Meiji period is well documented. However, beyond Fukuzawa Yukichi, the publishing sensation of the era, little is known about those who translated works on technology or their motives for doing so. During the 1870s, the heyday of Japan's Meiji enlightenment, over fifty works on technology were translated from Western languages. Although the government often spearheaded this drive, many translators t…
Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Gabriele Tola, John Fryer and The Translator's Vade-mecum
Science across the Meiji divide
Histories of Japanese science have been integral in affirming the Meiji Restoration of 1868 as the starting point of modern Japan. Vernacular genres, characterized as "premodern," have therefore largely been overlooked by historians of science, regardless of when they were published. Paradoxically, this has resulted in the marginalization of the very works through which most people encountered science. This article addresses this oversight and it…
Minakata Kumagusu in London
The Japanese biologist and ethnologist Minakata Kumagusu has achieved a degree of celebrity in Japan for being the first Asian contributor to the British scientific magazine Nature . However, although Minakata's many contributions to Nature from 1893 to 1914 provided British readers with rare insight into Asian scientific achievements, he is seldom discussed in history of science scholarship produced by American, British and European researchers.…
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Meiji period (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)