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Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1390 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : 0521085713
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:49015002034099
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Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521210283
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 military invention, especially gunpowder; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : 0521210283
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 49,6 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,Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 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
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1976-05-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521210283
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 military invention, especially gunpowder; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
Author : Joseph Needham,Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1980-06-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521292867
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.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1976-05-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521210283
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 military invention, especially gunpowder; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978-06-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521218217
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.
Author : Peter J. Golas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521580005
The fifth volume of the late 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. Spanning from the Neolithic period to the present day, it deals with the full range of Chinese mining from copper to mercury, arsenic to coal. The author explores not only the written sources but also the archaeological remains, and observes the traditional techniques still in use. The interrelationship between Chinese mining and its social, economic and political implications is examined. Through these discoveries, the author concludes that these factors were probably more important in determining how mining was carried out than the technological progress itself.
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : China
ISBN : LCCN:54004723
Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:715320895
Author : Colin A. Ronan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521315360
In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with the non-mathematician in mind. The text is next concerned with the sciences of astronomy and meteorology, followed by the Earth sciences: geography, cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Volume 2 closes with a description of some aspects of Chinese physics, including their predilection for the wave theory as opposed to particles, metrology, statics, hydrostatics, heat, light and sound.