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Author : Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 052146773X
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,Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0521292867
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
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521632625
The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction discusses these essays, placing them in their historical and medical context, and surveys recent medical discoveries from China, Japan, Europe and the United States.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : 0674794397
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
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : China
ISBN : 0521058023
Author : Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Gwei-Djen Lu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : China
ISBN : 0521070600
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1965-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521058031
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 many branches of mechanical engineering; and the third will deal with civil and hydraulic engineering and nautical technology. With this part of Volume 4, then, we come to the application by the Chinese of physical principles in the control of forces and in the use of power; we cross the frontier separating tools from the machine. We have already noticed that the ancient Chinese concept of chhi (somewhat similar to the pneuma of the Greeks) asserted itself prominently in acoustics; but we discover here that the Chinese tendency to think pneumatically was also responsible for a whole range of brilliant technological achievements, for example, the double-acting piston-bellows, the rotary winnowing-fan, and the water-powered metallurgical blowing-machine (ancestor of the steam-engine); as well as for some extraordinary insights and predictions in aeronautics.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : 0521058015
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.
Author : Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 0521315603
A section of Volume IV, part 1 and a section of Volume IV, part 3 of the major series:
Author : Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Derek John de Solla Price
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521322766
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 : Asiapac Editorial
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789813170353
Examine and discover the intriguing legends and science underpinning the splendour of the ancient Chinese civilisation. Packed with information and vividly illustrated, this easy-to-read volume will greatly enhance your appreciation of Chinese science and technology.
Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061795886
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country. No cloistered don, this tall, married Englishman was a freethinking intellectual, who practiced nudism and was devoted to a quirky brand of folk dancing. In 1937, while working as a biochemist at Cambridge University, he instantly fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair. He soon became fascinated with China, and his mistress swiftly persuaded the ever-enthusiastic Needham to travel to her home country, where he embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankind's most familiar innovations—including printing, the compass, explosives, suspension bridges, even toilet paper—often centuries before the rest of the world. His thrilling and dangerous journeys, vividly recreated by Winchester, took him across war-torn China to far-flung outposts, consolidating his deep admiration for the Chinese people. After the war, Needham was determined to tell the world what he had discovered, and began writing his majestic Science and Civilisation in China, describing the country's long and astonishing history of invention and technology. By the time he died, he had produced, essentially single-handedly, seventeen immense volumes, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopedist ever. Both epic and intimate, The Man Who Loved China tells the sweeping story of China through Needham's remarkable life. Here is an unforgettable tale of what makes men, nations, and, indeed, mankind itself great—related by one of the world's inimitable storytellers.
Author : Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-yü,Gwei-Djen Lu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : UCSC:32106014792144
The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521875660
Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521338735
Digesting the main sections of Volume IV of Dr. Needham's magnum opus, this book is concerned with the immense advances made in early and medieval China in mechanical engineering. It discusses in simple but eminently readable terms the status of engineers, their tools and materials, then basic mechanical principles, followed by machinery powered by animals, man and even by steam, vehicles for land transport, six centuries of hidden clockwork, windmills and aeronautics. Since China was far ahead of the West in ancient and medieval times, this volume helps make clear the immense debt owed by Western civilization to the Chinese. Such debts included the important mechanical principles of transforming rotary motion to a to-and-fro motion of a crank and vice-versa. They invented the first efficient harness for horses and the first mechanical clocks.