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Author | : Pnina G. Abir-Am |
Publisher | : Commemorations Osiris |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226000916 |
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This volume breaks new ground in the study of how national culture, disciplinary tradition, epistemological choice, and political expediency affect the construction of collective memory. Essays focus on a variety of commemorative rites, ranging from the quincentenary of Copernicus to anniversaries of research schools in molecular biology.
Author | : Morris F. Low |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780674794399 |
Download Science in Traditional China Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521467735 |
Download The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136574417 |
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First published in 1969. The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the Renaissance that Europe drew ahead. Throughout those fifteen centuries, and ever since, the West has been profoundly affected by the discoveries and invention emanating from China and East Asia. In this series of essays and lectures, Joseph Needham explores the mystery of China's early lead and Europe's later overtaking.
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136574697 |
Download Within the Four Seas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems. The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from South as well as East Asia, and suggests that the events of the twentieth century were a natural development of Chinese history, not a deviation from it.
Author | : M. Low |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2005-05-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403981116 |
Download Building a Modern Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the late Nineteenth-century, the Japanese embarked on a program of westernization in the hope of building a strong and modern nation. Science, technology and medicine played an important part, showing European nations that Japan was a world power worthy of respect. It has been acknowledged that state policy was important in the development of industries but how well-organized was the state and how close were government-business relations? The book seeks to answer these questions and others. The first part deals with the role of science and medicine in creating a healthy nation. The second part of the book is devoted to examining the role of technology, and business-state relations in building a modern nation.
Author | : George Steiner |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780811217033 |
Download My Unwritten Books Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the worlds foremost literary critics meditates upon seven books he long had in mind to write but never did. Massively erudite, the essays are also brave, unflinching, and wholly personal.
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1986-09-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521322768 |
Download Heavenly Clockwork Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussion of the social context of the Chinese inventions and an assessment of their possible transmission to medieval Europe. For this revised edition, Dr Joseph Needham has contributed a new foreword on recent research and perceptions. In a supplement John H. Combridge details a modern reconstruction of Su Sung's timekeeping device, which together with textual studies modifies our understanding of this important early technology.
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Science |
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Forschung / China.