Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1, Introductory Orientations

ISBN-13: 9780521057998 / Angielski / Twarda / 1956 / 352 str.

Joseph Needham

Opis

Half title of some vols. in Chinese characters: Zhongguo ke xue ji shu shi.

Recenzje

"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of tables; Contents of the subsequent volumes of 'Science and Civilisation in China'; 1. Preface; 2. Plan of the work; 3. Bibliographical notes; 4. Geographical introduction; 5. Historical introduction: I. The pre-imperial phase; 6. Historical introduction: II. The empire of all under heaven; 7. Conditions of travel of scientific ideas and techniques between China and Europe; Bibliographies; General index.