Science And Civilisation In China Volume 6 Biology And Biological Technology Part 2 Agriculture

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521250764
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture to be published in the West. From a huge mass of source material, often confusing and obscure, and from first-hand study in China, she brings order and illumination to a crucial area of Chinese technological development. The main body of the book is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated). The concluding section contrasts Europe's Agricultural Revolution with agrarian change in North China in the Han and with the 'Green Revolution' in South China in the Sung. In the theoretical analysis which concludes this section we find a vital contribution to the elucidation of the main question posed by Dr Needham's work: why did the Scientific Revolution which transformed the world take place in Europe and not in China?

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521250764
Total Pages : 768 pages
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Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 2, Agriculture written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-19 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture to be published in the West. From a huge mass of source material, often confusing and obscure, and from first-hand study in China, she brings order and illumination to a crucial area of Chinese technological development. The main body of the book is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated). The concluding section contrasts Europe's Agricultural Revolution with agrarian change in North China in the Han and with the 'Green Revolution' in South China in the Sung. In the theoretical analysis which concludes this section we find a vital contribution to the elucidation of the main question posed by Dr Needham's work: why did the Scientific Revolution which transformed the world take place in Europe and not in China?

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 : 9780521419994
Total Pages : 934 pages
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Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-20 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early twentieth century. Dr Daniels includes an account of the contribution of Chinese techniques and machinery to the development of world sugar technology in the pre-modern period, devoting special attention to the transfer of this technology to the countries of South-East and East Asia in the period after the sixteenth century. The second, by Nicholas K. Menzies, is a history of forestry in China. A final section compares China's history of deforestation with the cases of Europe and Japan.

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Total Pages : 718 pages
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521087315
Total Pages : 758 pages
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Download or read book Biology and Biological Technology written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521087322
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : S.A.M. Adshead
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349257621
Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400–1800 written by S.A.M. Adshead and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-09-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reinterprets the rise of consumerism in terms of interaction between Europe and China 1400-1800. In particular, it examines the intellectual foundations of consumerism in food, dress, shelter, utilities, information and symbolism. It highlights consumerism as an expression of both rationality and freedom and indicates the constructive role it has played in the formation of the modern world. Particular use is made of comparisons between developments in Europe and China to differentiate both.

Author : Hong-Sen Yan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140209485X
Total Pages : 386 pages
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Download or read book International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms written by Hong-Sen Yan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Symposium on the History of Machines and Mechanisms is the main activity of the Permanent Commission (PC) for the History of Mechanism and Machine Science (HMM) of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM). The first symposium, HMM2000, was initiated by Dr. Marco Ceccarelli and was held at the University of Cassino (Cassino, Italy) on May 11–13, 2000. The second symposium, HMM2004, was chaired by Dr. Marco Ceccarelli and held at the same venue on May 12–15, 2004. The third symposium, HMM2008, was chaired by Dr. Hong-Sen Yan and held at the National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) on November 11–14, 2008. The mission of IFToMM is to promote research and development in the field of machines and mechanisms by theoretical and experimental methods, along with their practical applications. The aim of HMM2008 is to establish an international forum for presenting and discussing historical developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). The subject area covers all aspects of the development of HMM, such as machine, mechanism, kinematics, design method, etc., that are related to people, events, objects, anything that assisted in the development of the HMM, and presented in the forms of reasoning and ar- ments, demonstration and identification, and description and evaluation.

Author : Thomas A. Metzger
Publisher : Hoover Press Publication
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book Greater China and U.S. Foreign Policy written by Thomas A. Metzger and published by Hoover Press Publication. This book was released on 1996 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of the 1994 annual conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association held in Nottingham, England. The 11 papers include both theoretical and empirical studies of the contract as a central concept in both academic debate and mainstream government policy in Britain in the 1990s. The theoretical offerings emphasize the decline of the classical law and increased importance of co-operation and relationality. The empirical studies examine contracts in the National Health Service and local governments, noting the movement from hierarchical to market and quasi-market structures. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR