Chapter 1 Prologue: Textual Acts and the History of Science

Chapter 2 Speech Act Theory and Instructional Texts

Chapter 3 The Issue of Textual Genres in the Medical Literature Produced in Late Imperial China

Chapter 4 Zoological Nomenclature and Speech Act Theory

Chapter 5 Ordering Operations in Square Root Extractions, Analyzing Some Early Medieval Sanskrit Mathematical Texts with the Help of Speech Act Theory

Chapter 6 Textual Enumeration

Chapter 7 The Enumeration Structure of 爾雅 Ěryǎ’s “Semantic Lists”

Chapter 9 Describing Texts for Algorithms: How They Prescribe Operations and Integrate Cases. Reflections Based on Ancient Chinese Mathematical Sources

Chapter 10 A Work on the Degree of Generality Revealed in the Organization of Enumerations: Poincaré’s Classification of Singular Points of Differential Equations