Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth
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Bibliographic Information
Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth
(Science and civilisation in China / by Joseph Needham ; with the research assistance of Wang Ling, v. 3)
Cambridge University Press, 1992, c1959
Reprinted 1992
Available at 13 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 685-802
Includes index
Romanisation conversion tables: p. 878-886
Description and Table of Contents
Description
After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally-and here Dr Needham's work has no Western predecessors-there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Author's note
- 19. Mathematics
- 20. Astronomy
- 21. Meteorology
- 22. The Sciences of the Earth
- 23. Geography and cartography
- 24. Geology (and related sciences)
- 25. Seismology
- 26. Mineralogy
- Addenda
- Bibliographies
- General index.
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