Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521315609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A section of Volume IV, part 1 and a section of Volume IV, part 3 of the major series:
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521058018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
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 NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521467735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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
Author: Joseph NeedhamThe Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2
Author: Colin A. RonanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521315364
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
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.
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521315364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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
Author: Joseph Needham
Author: Joseph Needham