Book Description
Volumes I and II of the major series: China: its language, geography and history ; Chinese philosophy and scientific thought.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521292863
Volumes I and II of the major series: China: its language, geography and history ; Chinese philosophy and scientific thought.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521467735
This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521315609
A section of Volume IV, part 1 and a section of Volume IV, part 3 of the major series:
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521315364
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).
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1980-06-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521292863
Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than the general reader. This paperback version, abridged and re-written by Colin Ronan, makes this extremely important study accessible to a wider public. The present book covers the material treated in volumes I and II of Dr Needham's original work. The reader is introduced to the country of China, its history, geography and language, and an account is given of how scientific knowledge travelled between China and Europe. The major part of the book is then devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the milieu in which arose the schools of the Confucians, Taoists, Mohists, Logicians and Legalists. We are thus brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese Middle Ages, to the doctrines of the Two Forces (Yin and Yang) and the Five Elements (wu hsing), to the impact of the sceptical tradition and Buddhist and Neo-Confucian thought.
Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 1978-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521218214
Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than the general reader. This paperback version, abridged and re-written by Colin Ronan, makes this extremely important study accessible to a wider public. The present book covers the material treated in volumes I and II of Dr Needham's original work. The reader is introduced to the country of China, its history, geography and language, and an account is given of how scientific knowledge travelled between China and Europe. The major part of the book is then devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the milieu in which arose the schools of the Confucians, Taoists, Mohists, Logicians and Legalists. We are thus brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese Middle Ages, to the doctrines of the Two Forces (Yin and Yang) and the Five Elements (wu hsing), to the impact of the sceptical tradition and Buddhist and Neo-Confucian thought.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1978
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1985-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780521315364
In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with the non-mathematician in mind. The text is next concerned with the sciences of astronomy and meteorology, followed by the Earth sciences: geography, cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Volume 2 closes with a description of some aspects of Chinese physics, including their predilection for the wave theory as opposed to particles, metrology, statics, hydrostatics, heat, light and sound.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :