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Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth

By Joseph Needham

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1959
ISBN
0521058015, 9780521058018
Google Books ID
jfQ9E0u4pLAC
Open Library ID
OL7716138M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
113 MB (118186948 bytes)
Series
Science and Civilisation in China volume 3
Pages
1000\1000
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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.

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