The shorter Science and civilisation in China : an abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text  v. 1 ~ v. 5

Colin A. Ronan

In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with the non-mathematician in mind. The text is next concerned with the sciences of astronomy and meteorology, followed by the Earth sciences: geography, cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Volume 2 closes with a description of some aspects of Chinese physics, including their predilection for the wave theory as opposed to particles, metrology, statics, hydrostatics, heat, light and sound.

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This fifth volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China. No other country did more, both as to scale and skill, than China. The book opens with an account of the road system, which compared not unfavourably with that of the Roman Empire. Naturally, the Great Wall of China is covered in some detail within the social context of walls, which mark, more than any other structure, the basic features of the Chinese communities. The Chinese genius of town planning and achievements in hydraulic engineering are covered in later chapters. This book concludes with an abridgement of Chinese engineering, and provides many clues as to the influence of Chinese innovation on Western engineering trends.

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This third volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is devoted to Chinese contributions to nautical science and technology. In the original text, these subjects were dealt with in separate parts; in this abridgement they are coveniently presented in a single unified account. The book opens with an examination of what is perhaps the greatest single contribution of Chinese civilisation to nautical science, the magnetic compass. Then follow chapters on navigation, nautical history, and voyages and discoveries, together with design and methods of construction of Chinese shipping. A final chapter looks at nautical technology in war and peace. In the original text, the material covered here appeared in Volume IV Part I and Volume IV Part 3. In abridging the text, the opportunity has been taken to include the official Pin Yin transliterations alongside those of the original work.

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Three previous volumes of this series by Colin Ronan are each available in hardback as well as paperback. Volume I introduces the reader to the country of China: its history, geography and language. The major part of this book is devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. In Volume II, the first section deals with mathematics, and this is followed by a section dealing with mathematics. Then follow sections on astronomy, meteorology and the earth sciences. The volume closes with a description of various aspects of Chinese physics. Volume III looks in some detail at one of the greatest contributions the Chinese made to physics - the discovery of the magnetic compass.

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Three previous volumes of this series by Colin Ronan are each available in hardback as well as paperback. Volume I introduces the reader to the country of China: its history, geography and language. The major part of this book is devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. In Volume II, the first section deals with mathematics, and this is followed by a section dealing with mathematics. Then follow sections on astronomy, meteorology and the earth sciences. The volume closes with a description of various aspects of Chinese physics. Volume III looks in some detail at one of the greatest contributions the Chinese made to physics - the discovery of the magnetic compass.

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Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than the general reader. This paperback version, abridged and re-written by Colin Ronan, makes this extremely important study accessible to a wider public. The present book covers the material treated in volumes I and II of Dr Needham's original work. The reader is introduced to the country of China, its history, geography and language, and an account is given of how scientific knowledge travelled between China and Europe. The major part of the book is then devoted to the history of scientific thought in China itself. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the milieu in which arose the schools of the Confucians, Taoists, Mohists, Logicians and Legalists. We are thus brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese Middle Ages, to the doctrines of the Two Forces (Yin and Yang) and the Five Elements (wu hsing), to the impact of the sceptical tradition and Buddhist and Neo-Confucian thought.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Engineers: their status, tools and materials
  • 2. Basic mechanical principles
  • 3. Mechanical toys and machines described in Chinese works
  • 4. Vehicles for land transport and design of an efficient horse harness
  • 5. Clockwork: six hidden centuries
  • 6. Vertical and horizontal mountings, windmills and aeronautics
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Chinese dynastics
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Engineers: their status, tools and materials
  • 2. Basic mechanical principles
  • 3. Mechanical toys and machines described in Chinese works
  • 4. Vehicles for land transport and design of an efficient horse harness
  • 5. Clockwork: six hidden centuries
  • 6. Vertical and horizontal mountings, windmills and aeronautics
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Chinese dynastics
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Magnetism and electricity
  • 2. Nautical technology
  • 3. Voyages and discovieries
  • 4. Navigation
  • 5. Propulsion
  • 6. Steering
  • 7. Techniques of peace and war afloat
  • Table of Chinese dynasties
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Mathematics
  • 2. The sciences of the heavens: (i) astronomy
  • 3. The sciences of the heavens: (ii) meteorology
  • 4. The sciences of the earth: (i) geography and map-making
  • 5. The sciences of the earth: (ii) geology and related sciences
  • 6. Physics
  • Table of Chinese dynastics
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Roads
  • 2. Walls, and the Great Wall
  • 3. Building technology
  • 4. Bridges
  • 5. Hydraulic engineering (I), control, construction and maintenance of waterways
  • 6. Hydraulic engineering (II), water-raising machinery and the use of water as a power source
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Chinese dynasties
  • Index.

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[目次]

  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Chinese language
  • 3. The geography of China
  • 4. Chinese history: (i) the pre-Imperial Ages
  • 5. Chinese history: (ii) the empire of all under heaven
  • 6. The travelling of science between China and Europe
  • 7. Confucianism
  • 8. Taoism
  • 9. The Mohists and Logicians
  • 10. The fundamental ideas of Chinese science
  • 11. The pseudo-sciences and the sceptical tradition
  • 12. Chin and Tang Taoists and Sung Neo-Confucians
  • 13. Sung and Ming idealists and the last great figures of Chinese naturalism
  • 14. Buddhist thought
  • 15. The Legalists
  • 16. Human law and the laws of nature
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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この本の情報

書名 The shorter Science and civilisation in China : an abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text
著作者等 Needham, Joseph
Ronan, Colin A
Needham Joseph
巻冊次 v. 1
v. 2
v. 3
v. 4
v. 5
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1978-
ページ数 v.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521235820
0521252725
0521292867
0521315360
0521315603
0521329957
0521338735
0521462142
052146773X
0521218217
NCID BA10252116
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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