Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Autor: | Needham, Joseph |
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EAN: | 9780521058018 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 926 |
Produktart: | Gebunden |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.01.1959 |
Schlagworte: | Medical / Nursing |
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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.