Research Catalog

Title

Science and technology in East Asia : the legacy of Joseph Needham / edited by Alain Arrault and Catherine Jami.

Author

International Congress on the History of Sciences (20th : 1997 : Liège, Belgium)

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, 2001.

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Additional Authors

• Jami, Catherine.
• Arrault, Alain.

Description

152 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

• De diversis artibus ; t. 51
• Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997) ; v. 9
• International Congress on the History of Sciences (20th : 1997 : Liège, Belgium). Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science (Liège, 20-26 July 1997) ; v. 9.

Uniform Title

De diversis artibus ; t. 51.

Subject

• Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995 > Congresses
• Science > East Asia > History > Congresses
• Technology > East Asia > History > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes one contribution in French.

Contents

Introduction: science and technology in East Asia / Catherine Jami -- Joseph Needham, heterodox marxism, and Chinese science / Gregory Blue -- Joseph Needham's Grand Question and how to make it productive for our understanding of the Scientific Revolution / H. Floris Cohen -- Needham's vision of the encounter of China and Europe: the case of the history of botany / Georges Métailié -- Technological illustration in China: a post-Needham perspective / Peter J. Golas -- Influence of Islamic astronomy in Song and Yuan China: some facts and discussions / Sun Xiaochun, Jacob Kistemaker -- Some reflections on the Western scientific traditions from the East Asian perspective / Yung Sik Kim -- Needham's impact on Japanese history of science / Togo Tsukahara, Keizo Hashimoto, Noriaki Matsumura -- Cognitive homologies in the studies of science in Indian antiquity: a historiographic axis of the Indian journal of history of science / Dhruv Raina -- Why the Classic of mountains and seas (the Shan hai jing) contains topographically inaccurate data / Véra Dorofeeva-Lichtemann -- Pensée corrélative et arithmologie en Chine: le cas de Shao Yong (1012-1077) / Alain Arrault -- The argument between right-rotation theory and left-rotation theory of the sun, the moon and the five planets in ancient China / Chen Meidong -- The acceptance of proportional expression in Japan / Ken'ichi Sato.

ISBN

2503512682

OCLC

• 52047592
• ocm52047592
• SCSB-4211819

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries