Texts, textual acts and the history of science

Chapter 1. Prologue: Textual acts and the history of science Karine Chemla & Jacques Virbel.- Part I. Speech acts and textual acts.- Chapter 2. Speech act theory and instructional texts Jacques Virbel.- Chapter 3. The issue of textual genres in the medical literature produced in late imperial China Florence Bretelle-Establet.- Chapter 4. Zoological nomenclature and speech act theory Yves Cambefort.- Chapter 5. Ordering operations in square root extractions. Analyzing some early medieval Sanskrit mathematical texts with the help of speech act theory Agathe Keller.- Part II. Enumerations as textual acts.- Chapter 6. The description of enumerations Jacques Virbel.- Chapter 7. The enumeration structure of Erya's "Semantic Lists" Michel Teboul.- Chapter 8. A tree-structured list in a mathematical series text from Mesopotamia Christine Proust.- Chapter 9. Describing texts for algorithms: how they prescribe operations and integrate cases. Reflections based on ancient Chinese mathematical sources Karine Chemla.- Chapter 10. A work on the degree of generality revealed in the organization of lists: Poincare's classification of singular points of differential equations Anne Robadey.