The Formation of Science in Japan

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The Formation of Science in Japan: Building a Research Tradition by James R. Bartholomew

In this book he shows how Japan developed this tradition by drawing both on the resources and policies of its own late feudal Tokugawa period and on what it regarded as essential elements of American and European science.