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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China Volume 5
Author | : Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052146773X |
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This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China Volume 1
Author | : Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521292867 |
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Volumes I and II of the major series: China: its language, geography and history ; Chinese philosophy and scientific thought.
Science and Civilisation in China Part 6 Medicine
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2000-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521632625 |
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The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.
Science and Civilisation in China
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0521058023 |
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Science and Civilisation in China
Author | : Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Gwei-Djen Lu |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1190 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0521070600 |
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Science in Traditional China
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674794397 |
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The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the invention of gunpowder and firearms, but also, through the search for macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry.
Science and Civilisation in China Part 2 Mechanical Engineering
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1022 |
Release | : 1965-01-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521058031 |
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As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each to be bound and published separately. The first part of Volume 4, already published, deals with the physical sciences; the second with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of mechanical engineering; and the third will deal with civil and hydraulic engineering and nautical technology. With this part of Volume 4, then, we come to the application by the Chinese of physical principles in the control of forces and in the use of power; we cross the frontier separating tools from the machine. We have already noticed that the ancient Chinese concept of chhi (somewhat similar to the pneuma of the Greeks) asserted itself prominently in acoustics; but we discover here that the Chinese tendency to think pneumatically was also responsible for a whole range of brilliant technological achievements, for example, the double-acting piston-bellows, the rotary winnowing-fan, and the water-powered metallurgical blowing-machine (ancestor of the steam-engine); as well as for some extraordinary insights and predictions in aeronautics.
Science and Civilisation in China Volume 3 Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1146 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521058015 |
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After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally-and here Dr Needham's work has no Western predecessors-there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy.