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Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521057998 |
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Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521292863 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521467735 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 1987-01-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780521303583 |
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The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking. The discovery of gunpowder in China by the 9th century AD was followed by its rapid applications. It is now clear that the whole development from bombs and grenades to the invention of the metal-barrel hand gun took place in the Chinese culture area before Europeans had any knowledge of the mixture itself. Uses in civil engineering and mechanical engineering were equally important, before the knowledge of gunpowder spread to Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Dr Needham's new work continues to demonstrate the major importance of Chinese science and technology to world history and maintains the tradition of one of the great scholarly works of the twentieth century.
Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1176 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521315364 |
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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 | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521315609 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004-07-22 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521087322 |
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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 | : Joseph Needham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2004-07-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780521087322 |
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Joseph Needham, who died in 1995, was the greatest British historian of China of the last 100 years. His Science and Civilisation in China series caused a seismic shift in western perceptions of China, revealed as perhaps the world's most scientifically and technically productive country in pre-modern times. But why did the scientific and industrial revolutions not happen in China? Joseph Needham reflects on possible answers to this question in the concluding volume of this series and provides fascinating insights into his great intellectual quest.
Author | : Colin A. Ronan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980-06-19 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780521292863 |
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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.