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Science and Civilisation in China
Joseph Needham
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Description for Science and Civilisation in China
hardcover. Series: Science and Civilisation in China. Num Pages: 722 pages. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 300 x 180 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1774.
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 Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines ... Read more
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 Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1956
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
722
Condition
New
Series
Science and Civilisation in China
Number of Pages
722
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521058001
SKU
V9780521058001
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Reviews for Science and Civilisation in China
"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task." Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books "Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man." Laurence Picken, Cambridge University