The Shorter Science And Civilisation In China Volume 3

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315609
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3 written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780521467735
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5 written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780521292863
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1 written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780521058018
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315364
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2 written by Colin A. Ronan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-06-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315364
Total Pages : 476 pages
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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2 written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, showing that Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. Then the book goes on to cover astronomy and meteorology, Earth sciences and physics.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338738
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4 written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Main sections of Volume IV, part 2 of the major series: Engineers: their status tools & materials ; Basic mechanical principles & types of machines ; Land transport ; Clockwork ; Windmills & aeronautics.

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674794399
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science in Traditional China written by Joseph Needham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521292863
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1 written by Colin A. Ronan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.