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 1959Hardback
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.
