Science And Civilisation In China Part 2 Mechanical Engineering
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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.
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 4
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1978
The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 4 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.
Three previous volumes of this series by Colin Ronan are each available in hardback as well as paperback. Volume I introduces the reader to the country of China: its history, geography and language. The major part of this book is devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. In Volume II, the first section deals with mathematics, and this is followed by a section dealing with mathematics. Then follow sections on astronomy, meteorology and the earth sciences. The volume closes with a description of various aspects of Chinese physics. Volume III looks in some detail at one of the greatest contributions the Chinese made to physics - the discovery of the magnetic compass.
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 Chemistry And Chemical Technology Part 1 Paper And Printing
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-07-11
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 Chemistry And Chemical Technology Part 1 Paper And Printing 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 1985-07-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been of profound importance in the spread of civilisation. The main body of the book is a detailed study of the invention, technology and aesthetic development of printing in China. From the growth and ultimate refinements of early woodcut printing to the spread of printing from movable type and the development of book-binding, Professor Tsien carries the story forward to the beginning of the nineteenth century when 'more printed pages existed in Chinese than in all other languages put together'.
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.
Heavenly Clockwork
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1986-09-18
Heavenly Clockwork written by Joseph Needham and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-09-18 with Science categories.
A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 7 The Social Background Part 2 General Conclusions And Reflections
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-22
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 7 The Social Background Part 2 General Conclusions And Reflections 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 2004-07-22 with Business & Economics categories.
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China series. For nearly fifty years, Needham and his collaborators have revealed the ideals, concepts and achievements of China's scientific and technological traditions from the earliest times to about 1800 through this great enterprise. During his long working lifetime, Needham kept in draft various essays, some written with collaborators, in which he set out his broad views on the Chinese social and historical context. These essays, edited by one of his closest collaborators, Kenneth Robinson, are contained in the present volume. A reading of this material makes it possible to reconstruct the assumptions and problematics that underpinned and drove the Needham project throughout the nearly one half century during which he was at the helm. The documents gathered here reveal the intellectual foundations of one of the greatest scholarly enterprises of the twentieth century.
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 Chemistry And Chemical Technology Part 7 Military Technology The Gunpowder Epic
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1987-01-22
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 5 Chemistry And Chemical Technology Part 7 Military Technology The Gunpowder Epic 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 1987-01-22 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking. The discovery of gunpowder in China by the 9th century AD was followed by its rapid applications. It is now clear that the whole development from bombs and grenades to the invention of the metal-barrel hand gun took place in the Chinese culture area before Europeans had any knowledge of the mixture itself. Uses in civil engineering and mechanical engineering were equally important, before the knowledge of gunpowder spread to Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Dr Needham's new work continues to demonstrate the major importance of Chinese science and technology to world history and maintains the tradition of one of the great scholarly works of the twentieth century.
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.
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 4 Physics And Physical Technology Part 2 Mechanical Engineering
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Science And Civilisation In China Volume 4 Physics And Physical Technology Part 2 Mechanical Engineering written by Joseph Needham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with categories.
Science And Civilisation In China
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Author : Joseph Needham
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004
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 2004 with Ceramic industries categories.