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Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Military ...
Joseph Needham

Cambridge University Press, 1987

The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking. The discovery of gunpowder in China by the 9th century AD was followed by its rapid applications. It is now clear that the whole development from bombs and grenades to the invention of the metal-barrel hand gun took place in the Chinese culture area before Europeans had any knowledge of the mixture itself. Uses in civil ...

Science & Civilisation in China Volume IV:3
Joseph Needham

Cambridge University Press, 1971

As Dr Needham's immense undertaking gathers momentum it has been found necessary to subdivide volumes into parts, each bound and published separately. The first two parts of Volume IV deal respectively with the physical sciences and with the diverse applications of physics in the many branches of mechanical engineering. The third deals with civil and hydraulic engineering and with nautical technology.

Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, ...

World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 1985

Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa (Needham Research Institute Series, 1)

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Gwei-Djen Lu

RoutledgeCurzon, 2002

Academics & serious students of acupuncture only should buy
After finding out that what is taught in the West as `Traditional Chinese Medicine' was basically created by a Chinese Communist government committee from some but not all of the various ancient texts and practices that are available, I wanted to reconstruct Traditional Chinese Medicine (particularly acupuncture) as it actually existed prior to the Communist revolution. I came across Celestial ...

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology; Part 1, Botany
Joseph Needham

Cambridge University Press, 1986

The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology (which includes botany and agriculture, zoology, all aspects of medicine, and pharmaceutics).

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology; Part 6, Medicine
Joseph Needham

Cambridge University Press, 2000

The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including hygiene and preventive medicine, forensic medicine and immunology. Professor Sivin's extensive introduction ...

The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780
Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen, ...

Cambridge University Press, 2004

Between the fourteenth and the eighteenth centuries, there was created under the Yi Dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks. The present volume is the result of close collaboration between four distinguished historians of Asian science to demonstrate the context, purpose, nature and specific workings of these early scientific instruments. Specially commissioned drawings and other illustrations ...

Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West: Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology

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Joseph Needham

Cambridge University Press, 1970

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Joseph Needham's "Science and Civilization in China" (SCC), multi-volume project is ongoing even though he died in 1995. At a time when the Chinese were making advances in science and technology, Western knowledge stagnated, provoking the question of why Europe industrialized and China did not? Needham's education was in science. His interest in the religion, philosophy, and history of China ...