The Origins of Sciences in China: History of Science and Technology in China Volume 1

ISBN-13: 9789811578526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 962 str.

Xiaoyuan Jiang

Spis treści

Overview of ancient Chinese studies of Heaven.- the Pre-qin period: Scientific and Technological Development in the Flourishing Times of Diverse Schools of Thoughts.- Chinese Agriculture and Conceptual Evolution of Agricultural Science  Kao Gong Ji and Chinese Ancient Craftsmanship Industry.- From the Bamboo or Silk Medicine Books to the Establishment of Classics.- Literature on the Bamboo Slips and Chinese Mathematical History.- Historical Development of Chinese Traditional Metrology.- Cosmology of Ancient Chinese People.- Ancient Chinese Architecture.- Ancient Chinese Angle: Concept and Measurement.- Shipbuilding and Shipping in China.- The Development of Bronze Metallurgical Technology in the Pre-Qin Period.- Marquis Yi of Zeng’s Bell Set and Ancient Chinese Medicine.- Techniques of Bronze Kingdom: Ancient Chinese Casting Technologies.- Ancient Chinese Alchemy.- Nine Chapters on Mathematical Procedures and Liu Hui .- Glossary.- “Comparison of Chronicle of Events in China and Western Countries”.

O autorze

Xiaoyuan Jiang, Dean of the Institute of science history and science and culture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University