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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections
Av Joseph Needham, Kenneth Girdwood Robinson
Inbunden, 2004
2517 kr
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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 …
Order and Life
Inbunden, 2031
970 kr
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This volume, which is based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University in 1935, deals with the problem of the unity of natural knowledge. It considers the cleavage between the inorganic and biological sciences, and between the theology of intelligibility and that of inexplicability. Under …
Grand Titration
Science and Society in East and West
Inbunden, 2005
4228 kr
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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 …
Within the Four Seas
The Dialogue of East and West
Inbunden, 2005
4354 kr
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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 …
Grand Titration
Science and Society in East and West
Häftad, 2013
851 kr
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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 …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1, Introductory Orientations
Inbunden, 1956
2887 kr
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Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2, History of Scientific Thought
Inbunden, 1956
3785 kr
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The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Inbunden, 1959
5596 kr
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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 …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Physics
Inbunden, 1962
2716 kr
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Dr Needham's fourth volume traces the development of physics and physical technology in ancient and medieval China. It is conveniently divided into three separate parts, the present volume, IV:1, dealing with physics as such, IV:2 with mechanical engineering and IV:3 with civil engineering and …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering
Inbunden, 1965
4570 kr
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As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each to be bound and published separately. The first part of Volume 4, already published, deals with the physical sciences; the second with the diverse applications of physics in the …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering and Nautics
Inbunden, 1971
3760 kr
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As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each bound and published separately. The first two parts of Volume IV deal respectively with the physical sciences and with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 2, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality
Inbunden, 1974
4333 kr
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The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts
Av Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yu m. fl.
Inbunden, 1980
4234 kr
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The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 5, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy
Inbunden, 1983
3586 kr
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The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes …
Heavenly Clockwork
The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China
Av Joseph Needham, Ling Wang m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
700 kr
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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 …
The Chemistry of Life
Eight Lectures on the History of Biochemistry
Av Robert Hill, F. G. Young m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
716 kr
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This assembly of lectures, each on a major aspect of the development of biochemistry, should appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the nature of living things. Seven of the eight lectures are by eminent biochemists and describe the development of their own subject from the …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin
Inbunden, 1976
3785 kr
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The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture
Av Joseph Needham, Francesca Bray
Inbunden, 1984
4256 kr
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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, …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 7, Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic
Inbunden, 1987
3957 kr
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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 …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling
Av Joseph Needham, Dieter Kuhn
Inbunden, 1988
3785 kr
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This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology and deals with the evolution of bast fibre spinning and silk-reeling in the history of China. These operations are the basic techniques in the production of yarn and thread, pre-requisite to …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Military Technology: Missiles and Sieges
Av Joseph Needham, Robin D. S. Yates
Inbunden, 1995
3522 kr
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Science and Civilisation in China Volume V Part 6 is the first of the three parts dealing with the arts of war in ancient and medieval China. The present volume opens with an introduction on Chinese attitudes to warfare in general. Four major sections follow: on the making and use of simple bows; …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry
Av Joseph Needham, Christian Daniels m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
4156 kr
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Volume 6. Part III of Science and Civilisation in China 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 …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1, Language and Logic in Traditional China
Av Joseph Needham, Christoph Harbsmeier
Inbunden, 1998
3486 kr
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Science and Civilisation in China Volume 7 Part 1 is the first book in the final volume of this unique resource. The Chinese culture is the only culture in the world which has developed systematic logical definitions and reflections on its own and on the basis of a non-Indo-European language. …
The Hall of Heavenly Records
Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780
Av Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
716 kr
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Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, there was created under the Yi Dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks. The present volume is the result of close collaboration between four distinguished historians of Asian science to demonstrate …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine
Av Joseph Needham, Nathan Sivin
Inbunden, 2000
2030 kr
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The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial review of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces the history of medicine. Following the deaths of Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen, a considerable amount of written material on the development of Chinese medicine awaited …
Celestial Lancets
A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa
Av Gwei-Djen Lu, Joseph Needham
Häftad, 2002
851 kr
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Using modern knowledge to shed light on ancient techniques, this text examines two of the earliest therapeutic techniques of Chinese medicine: acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture is the implantation of very thin needles into subcutaneous connective tissue and muscle at a great number of …
Within the Four Seas
The Dialogue of East and West
Häftad, 1979
275 kr
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Joseph Needham is one of the world’s experts on China and her culture, especially the history of science and technology in that great civilization. No one is better qualified to write about the contrasts and similarities between China and Europe, their mutual relations, and the ideas they have had …
Science and Society in Ancient China
Av Joseph Needham, Joseph 1900- Needham
Inbunden, 2021
423 kr
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