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Science and Civilisation in China

Science and Civilisation in China

Science and Civilisation in China

Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Joseph Needham
January 1959
3. Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
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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.

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    January 1959
    Hardback
    9780521058018
    926 pages
    253 × 196 × 67 mm
    2.35kg
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    Table of Contents

    • List of illustrations List of tables
    • List of abbreviations
    • Acknowledgements
    • Author's note
    • 19. Mathematics
    • 20. Astronomy
    • 21. Meteorology
    • 22. The Sciences of the Earth
    • 23. Geography and cartography
    • 24. Geology (and related sciences)
    • 25. Seismology
    • 26. Mineralogy
    • Addenda
    • Bibliographies
    • General index.
      Author
    • Joseph Needham