CHINESE SCIENCE : Explorations of an Ancient Tradition
Inbunden bok.
Mycket gott skick. The MIT Press, 1973, XXXVI (2) 334 pp., 1st ed., orig hardback w. d/j., good condition; M.I.T. East Asian Science Series, Volume II.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 026214011X
- Titel
- Chinese science : explorations of an ancient tradition : [compiled in honor of the seventieth birthday of Joseph Needham.]
- Författare
- Needham, Joseph - Nakayaama, Shigeru - Sivin, Nathan
- Förlag
- Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press
- Utgivningsår
- 1973
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- The historian of science as ecumenical man: a meditation in the Shingon temple of Kongosammai-in on Koyasan, by J. Needham. -- Joseph Needham and the science of China, by D.J. de Solla Price. -- Joseph Needham, organic philosopher, by S. Nakayama. -- China, Europe, and the origins of modern science: Needham's the grand titration, by A.C. Graham. -- The Chinese concept of nature, by M. Yosida. -- Chinese astronomy: development and limiting factors, by K. Yabuuti. -- A systematic approach to the Mohist optics (ca. 300 B.C.), by A.C. Graham and N. Sivin. -- Elixir plants: the Chun-yang Lü Chen-jen yao shih chih (Pharmaceutical manual of the adept Lü Chun-yang), by Ho Peng Yoke, B. Lim, and F. Morsingh. -- Man as a medicine: pharmacological and ritual aspects of traditional therapy using drugs derived from the human body, by W.C. Cooper and N. Sivin. -- A neglected source for the early history of anesthesia in China and Japan, by S. Miyasita. -- An introductory bibliography of traditional Chinese science: books and articles in Western languages, by N. Sivin (p. [279]-314).