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Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition.

Title: Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition. Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan Sivin.
Publication: Cambridge, MIT Press [c1973]

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Description

xxxvi, 334 p. illus.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M. I. T. East Asian science series, \2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M.I.T. East Asian science series ; \2.

Subject

Science > China > History

Note

"Compiled in honor of the seventieth birthday of Joseph Needham, F.R.S., F.B.A."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The historian of science as ecumenical man: a meditation in the Shingon temple of Kongōsammai-in on Kōyasan, by J. Needham.--Joseph Needham and the science of China, by D. J. de Solla Price.--Joseph Needham, organic philosopher, by S. Nakayama.--China, Europe, and the origins of modern science: Needham's the grand titration, by A. C. Graham.--The Chinese concept of nature, by M. Yosida.--Chinese astronomy: development and limiting factors, by K. Yabuuti.--A systematic approach to the Mohist optics (ca. 300 B.C.), by A. C. Graham and N. Sivin.--Elixir plants: the Chʼun-yang Lü Chen-jen yao shih chih (Pharmaceutical manual of the adept Lü Chʼun-yang), by Ho Peng Yoke, B. Lim, and F. Morsingh.--Man as a medicine: pharmacological and ritual aspects of traditional therapy using drugs derived from the human body, by W. C. Cooper and N. Sivin.--A neglected source for the early history of anesthesia in China and Japan, by S. Miyasita.--An introductory bibliography of traditional Chinese science: books and articles in Western languages, by N. Sivin (p. [279]-314)

Call Number

JSE 75-994

ISBN

026214011X

LCCN

72005577

OCLC

354284
NYPG754452818-B

Title

Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition. Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan Sivin.

Imprint

Cambridge, MIT Press [c1973]

Series

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M. I. T. East Asian science series, \2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. M.I.T. East Asian science series ; \2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Needham, Joseph, 1900-

Nakayama, Shigeru, 1928-2014.

Sivin, Nathan.

Research Call Number

JSE 75-994

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