Shaping the Sciences of the Ancient and Medieval World Textual Criticism, Critical Editions and Translations of Scholarly Texts in History

“The volume’s greatest innovation is its global, comparative framework. … Another notable strength is the book’s interdisciplinary breadth, integrating insights from philology, history of science, archaeology, and cultural studies. … the publication is undeniably a general-interest book for scholars in the history of science, philology, and cross-cultural studies. Its global perspective, rigorous scholarship, and critical insights into textual transmission challenge readers to rethink the authority of the texts that form the basis of our historical knowledge.” (Limei Zhi and Yanmeng Wanga, Historia Mathematica, Vol. 74, 2026)

Agathe Keller is senior research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), within the SPHere (Science, Philosophy, History) research lab. Her work centers on the history of mathematics as found in Sanskrit sources, with a special focus on commentaries. She also studies the historiography of science in south Asia from the late 18th century to contemporary political discourses on traditional science in India. She has recently co-edited with K. Chemla and C. Proust, Cultures of computation and quantification in the ancient world. (Springer, 2022).