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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth

Author : Joseph Needham

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1146 pages

File Size : 30,75 MB

Release : 1959

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521058018

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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.



The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5

Author : Joseph Needham

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 388 pages

File Size : 49,75 MB

Release : 1978

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521467735

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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.



Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections

Author : Joseph Needham

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 15,42 MB

Release : 2004-07-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780521087322

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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.



The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1

Author : Joseph Needham

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 22,62 MB

Release : 1978

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521292863

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Volumes I and II of the major series: China: its language, geography and history ; Chinese philosophy and scientific thought.





A History of Chinese Mathematics

Author : Jean-Claude Martzloff

Publisher : Springer

Page : 491 pages

File Size : 29,64 MB

Release : 2007-08-17

Category : Mathematics

ISBN : 3540337830

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Book Description

This book is made up of two parts, the first devoted to general, historical and cultural background, and the second to the development of each subdiscipline that together comprise Chinese mathematics. The book is uniquely accessible, both as a topical reference work, and also as an overview that can be read and reread at many levels of sophistication by both sinologists and mathematicians alike.



The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2

Author : Joseph Needham

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 476 pages

File Size : 44,82 MB

Release : 1978

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521315364

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Volume 2 contains Volume III and a section of Volume IV, Part 1 of the major series: Mathematics, Astronomy, Meteorology, Geography & map-making, Geology & related sciences, Physics (excluding electricity & magnetism).



On Their Own Terms

Author : Benjamin A. Elman

Publisher : Harvard University Press

Page : 606 pages

File Size : 24,97 MB

Release : 2009-07-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0674036476

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In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.



Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought

Author : Joseph Needham

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 746 pages

File Size : 31,31 MB

Release : 1956-01-03

Category : History

ISBN : 9780521058001

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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.



A History of Chinese Science and Technology

Author : Yongxiang Lu

Publisher : Springer

Page : 503 pages

File Size : 32,64 MB

Release : 2014-10-14

Category : Science

ISBN : 3662442574

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A History of Chinese Science and Technology (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) presents 44 individual lectures, beginning with Ancient Chinese Science and Technology in the Process of Human Civilizations and an Overview of Chinese Science and Technology, and continuing with in-depth discussions of several issues in the History of Science and the Needham Puzzle, interspersed with topics on Astronomy, Arithmetic, Agriculture and Medicine, The Four Great Inventions, and various technological areas closely related to clothing, food, shelter and transportation. This book is the most authoritative work on the history of Chinese Science and Technology. It is the Winner of the China Book Award, the Shanghai Book Award (1st prize), and the Classical China International Publishing Project (GAPP, General Administration of Press and Publication of China) and offers an essential resource for academic researchers and non-experts alike. It originated with a series of 44 lectures presented to top Chinese leaders, which received very positive feedback. Written by top Chinese scholars in their respective fields from the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and many other respected Chinese organizations, the book is intended for scientists, researchers and postgraduate students working in the history of science, philosophy of science and technology, and related disciplines. Yongxiang Lu is a professor, former president and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and Vice Chairman of the National Congress of China.