Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth by Joseph Needham epub fb2 djvu
Author: | Joseph Needham |
Title: | Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 3: Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth |
ISBN: | 0521058015 |
ISBN13: | 978-0521058018 |
Other Formats: | lrf azw mbr lit |
Pages: | 926 pages |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (January 1, 1959) |
Language: | English |
Size EPUB version: | 1772 kb |
Size FB2 version: | 1873 kb |
Category: | Engineering & Transportation |
Subcategory: | Engineering |
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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.