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Shorter Science and Civilisation in China An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text The Main Sections of Volume Iv, Part 2 of the Majo

Shorter Science and Civilisation in China An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text  The Main Sections of Volume Iv, Part 2 of the Majo
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521329958
  • ISBN: 0521329957
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Ronan, Colin A.

SUMMARY

In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with the non-mathematician in mind. The text is next concerned with the sciences of astronomy and meteorology, followed by the Earth sciences: geography, cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Volume 2 closes with a description of some aspects of Chinese physics, including their predilection for the wave theory as opposed to particles, metrology, statics, hydrostatics, heat, light and sound.Ronan, Colin A. is the author of 'Shorter Science and Civilisation in China An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text The Main Sections of Volume Iv, Part 2 of the Majo' with ISBN 9780521329958 and ISBN 0521329957.

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