Neo-Confucianism and Science in Korea

Historians of late premodern Korea have tended to regard it as a hermit kingdom, isolated from its neighbours and the wider world. In fact, as Ro argues in this book, Korean intellectuals were heavily influenced by both Chinese Neo-Confucianism and the European Enlightenment in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

Sang-ho Ro is Assistant Professor of Korean and East Asian Studies in the Division of International Studies at Ewha Woman's University.

1. Measuring the Old Universe with New Math 2. Observing the Animal Kingdom 3. Evolution of Korean Agrarian Writing 4. A Banished Man and Morphology of Fish 5. Daoist Alchemy and Female Empirical Knowledge