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Rangaku (Kyūjitai: 蘭學/Shinjitai: 蘭学,
literally "Dutch learning"), and by
extension Yōgaku (****anese: 洋学, "Western learning"), is a body of
knowledge developed...
- his
translation of
Kaitai Shinsho (New Book of Anatomy) and a
founder of
Rangaku (Western learning) and Ranpō (Dutch
style medicine) in ****an. He was one...
- and
insurance of the
Osaka rice brokers. The
study of
Western sciences (
rangaku)
continued through contact with the
Dutch enclave in Nagasaki. The Edo...
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Tokugawa shogunate. In addition,
rational Confucianism stimulated Kokugaku,
Rangaku and the non-official po****r
thought after the
middle Edo period. In the...
- and also
created an air gun
based on the
study of
Western knowledge ("
rangaku")
acquired from the
Dutch in Dejima.
Girardoni M1780
repeating air rifle...
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During the period, ****an
studied Western sciences and
techniques (called
rangaku, "Dutch studies")
through the
information and
books received through the...
- (漢学). He then
started to
study Western sciences ("
rangaku") at the age of 33, with the help of the
rangaku scholar Kurokawa Ryōan [jp] (黒川良安). In 1844, he...
- culture.
Dejima consequently pla**** a key role in the ****anese
movement of
rangaku (蘭學, "Dutch learning"), an
organized scholarly effort to
learn the Dutch...
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discusses the
vibrancy of Edo
period rangaku, and
notes the
competition in the
early Meiji period for
foreign experts and
rangaku scholars.
Timon Screech discusses...
- Kōan Ogata, a samurai,
physician and
rangaku scholar in late Edo
period ****an,
noted for
establishing an
academy which later developed into
Osaka University...
