Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1, Introductory Orientations

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Cambridge University Press, 1954 - 318 páginas
Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human culture. He begins by examining the structure of the Chinese language; he reviews the geography of China and the long history of its people, and discusses the scientific contacts which have occurred throughout the centuries, between Europe and East Asia.

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Índice

PREFACE
19
Note on the Chinese language p
27
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
42
GEOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION
55
b The geotectonics of China p
63
I
73
II
100
c The San Kuo Three Kingdoms and the key economic
112
g Time of the Five Dynasties Wu Tai and the
130
i The Yuan Mongol dynasty p
140
CONDITIONS OF TRAVEL OF SCIENTIFIC
150
c Rumours of Chinese culture in the Classical West p
157
e The development of overland trade routes p
170
ƒ The development of the maritime traderoutes p
176
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
249
GENERAL INDEX
299

d The Chin dynasty and its successors Wei Liu Sung
119

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