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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 2

By Joseph Needham , Colin A. Ronan

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1982
ISBN
9780521235822, 9780521315364
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23288177 bytes)
Series
The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 2
Volume
Volume 2
Pages
\472
Topic
History
Library
zlibrary
Scanned
yes
Time added
2025-03-25 17:58:53
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Description

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.

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