Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521070607
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Science and Civilisation in China
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521070607
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Science and Civilisation in China: Physics and physical technology: pt. 1. Physics. pt. 2. Mechanical engineering. pt. 3. Civil engineering and nautics
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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Science and Civilisation in China
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521058025
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
中國科學技術史
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
For contents, see Author Catalog.
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering
Author: Joseph NeedhamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521058032
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
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.
A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD)
Author: Rafe de CrespignyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047411846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1347
Book Description
This publication is the long-awaited complement to Michael Loewe's acclaimed Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (2000). With more than 8,000 entries, based upon historical records and surviving inscriptions, the comprehensive Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) now provides information on men and women of the Chinese world who lived at the time of Later (or Eastern) Han, from Liu Xiu, founding Emperor Guangwu (reg. 24-57), to the celebrated warlord Cao Cao (155-220) at the end of the dynasty. The entries, including surnames, personal names, styles and dates, are accompanied by maps, genealogical tables and indexes, with lists of books and special accounts of women. These features, together with the convenient surveys of the history and the administrative structure of the dynasty, will make Rafe de Crespigny's work an indispensable tool for any further serious study of a significant but comparatively neglected period of imperial China.
Picturing Technology in China
Author: Peter J. GolasPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888208152
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Although the history of technological and scientific illustrations is a well-established field in the West, scholarship on the much longer Chinese experience is still undeveloped. This work by Peter Golas is a short, illustrated overview tracing the subject to pre-Han inscriptions but focusing mainly on the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. His main theme is that technological drawings developed in a different way in China from in the West largely because they were made by artists rather than by specialist illustrators or practitioners of technology. He examines the techniques of these artists, their use of painting, woodblock prints and the book, and what their drawings reveal about changing technology in agriculture, industry, architecture, astronomical, military, and other spheres. The text is elegantly written, and the images, about 100 in all, are carefully chosen. This is likely to appeal to both scholars and general readers.
Song Dynasty
Author: China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850
Author: Georg LehnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004201505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
This book shows the ways in which English, French, and German eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century encyclopaedias dealt with things Chinese, offering an analysis of the broad variety of sources and an overview of the main strands of discourse on China.
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