This volume brings together essays from leading thinkers to examine what role Asian traditions of knowledge played in the rise of modern science in Europe, the implications this has for the epistemology of science, and whether pre-modern Asian traditions can provide resources for advancing scientific knowledge in future.

PART I: TOWARD DIALOGICAL HISTORY Global Dialogical History and the Challenge of Neo-Eurocentrism; J.M.Hobson A Passage to Infinity: The Contribution of Kerala to Modern Mathematics; G.G.Joseph Copernicus, Arabic Science and Scientific (R)evolutions; M.Kokowski Time Atomism and Ash'arite Origins for Cartesian Occasionalism Revisited; R.T.W.Arthur Pramanas, Proofs and the Yukti of Classical Indic Science; R.Narasimha PART II: SCIENCE, RATIONALITY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE Traditional Knowledge and the Smallpox Eradication Campaign; J.R.Brown The Dialogical Copernican Revolution: Implications for Scientific Method; A.Bala How Indigenous are 'Indigenous Sciences'? The Case of 'Islamic Sciences'; A.Paya The Role of Intercultural Dialogue in the Rise of Modern Science; A.Khursheed Science, Technology and Civilization Reconsidered; A.Brennan PART III: FORGING NEW KNOWLEDGE The Relevance of Classical Chinese Medicine; K.Lee Diverse Cultural Contributions to a 'Science of Religion': An Emerging Asia-Europe Dialogue on the Scientific Study of Religion; D.Wiebe Reclaiming Tradition: Implications of a Knowledge Indigenization Perspective for Asian Education; S.Gopinathan Southeast Asia's Indigenous Knowledge: The Conquest of the Mental Terra Incognitae; V.R.Savage