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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 …
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 …
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. …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 13, Mining
Inbunden, 1999
4066 kr
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The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking covers the subjects of chemistry and chemical technology. This, the thirteenth part of the volume, is the first history of Chinese mining to appear in a western language. Covering from the Neolithic period to the present day it deals with the …
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 …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 5, Fermentations and Food Science
Av H. T. Huang
Inbunden, 2000
3871 kr
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Today Chinese cuisine is enjoyed in many parts of the world, yet little is known in the West about the technologies involved in making its characteristic ingredients. H. T. Huang's book is the first history of Chinese food technology in a western language. It describes the conversion of …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 12, Ceramic Technology
Av Rose Kerr, Nigel Wood
Inbunden, 2004
4868 kr
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How were Chinese pots made, glazed and fired? Why did China discover porcelain more than one thousand years before the West? What are the effects of China's influence on world ceramics? These questions (and many more) are answered in this lavishly-illustrated history of Chinese ceramic technology. …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 11, Ferrous Metallurgy
Inbunden, 2008
3629 kr
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Donald B. Wagner provides a comprehensive historical account of the production and use of iron and steel in China in their political and economic context. An initial chapter on the traditional Chinese iron industry introduces the important technical concepts and the ways in which technology, …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing
Av Joseph Needham, Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin
Inbunden, 1985
3871 kr
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Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published …
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany
Inbunden, 1986
3871 kr
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The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, 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 biology and biological technology (which includes botany and …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 4, Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach
Inbunden, 2015
3370 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of botanical knowledge in China from ancient times to the end of the seventeenth century. In this highly illustrated study, Georges Métailié explores the perception and use of a wealth of plants and vegetation in China before the …
