Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth Hardback
by Joseph Needham
Part of the Science and Civilisation in China series
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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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- Pages:926 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1959
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- ISBN:9780521058018
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:926 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/01/1959
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- ISBN:9780521058018
