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The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1978
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 3 Mathematics And The Sciences Of The Heavens And The Earth
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1959
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 3 Mathematics And The Sciences Of The Heavens And The Earth written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with History categories.
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.
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 1
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1978
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 1 written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
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
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-13
Science And Civilisation In China Part 6 Medicine written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-13 with History categories.
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 Part 2 Mechanical Engineering
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1965-01-02
Science And Civilisation In China Part 2 Mechanical Engineering written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965-01-02 with History categories.
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
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1971
Science And Civilisation In China written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with China categories.
Science And Civilisation In China
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1974
Science And Civilisation In China written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Alchemy categories.
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 3
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1978
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 3 written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
A section of Volume IV, part 1 and a section of Volume IV, part 3 of the major series:
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 Chemistry And Chemical Technology Part 11 Ferrous Metallurgy
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language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 Chemistry And Chemical Technology Part 11 Ferrous Metallurgy written by and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 2 History Of Scientific Thought
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1956-01-03
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 2 History Of Scientific Thought written by Joseph Needham and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956-01-03 with History categories.
The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines of the Two Forces and the Five Elements. Subsequently he writes of the important sceptical tradition, the effects of Buddhist thought, and the Neo-Confucian climax of Chinese naturalism. Last comes a discussion of the conception of Laws of Nature in China and the West.