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Botany: A Modern Natural Science Book written by Mathematician Sang-Seol Lee (수학자 이상설이 소개한 근대자연과학: <식물학(植物學)>)

  • Park, Young-Min;Kim, Chae-Sik;Lee, Sang-Gu;Lee, Jae-Hwa
    • Communications of Mathematical Education
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.341-360
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    • 2011
  • This paper deals with contents that Sang-Seol Lee contributed to the natural science in the 19th century Korea. Prof. Sung-Rae Park, the science historian, called Sang-Seol Lee Father of the Modern Mathematics education of Korea. Sang-Seol Lee wrote a manuscript Botany with a brush in late 19th century. Botany was transcribed from Science Primers: Botany (written by J. D. Hooker), which is translated into Chinese by Joseph Edkins in 1886. The existence of Sang-Seol Lee's book Botany was not known to Korean scientists before. In this paper, we study the contents of Botany and its original text. Also we analyze people's level of understanding Western sciences, especially botany at that time. In addition, we study authors of 16 Primers jar Western Knowledge. We study the contribution of mathematician Sang-Seol Lee to science education in the 19th century Korea.