Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
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By:"Joseph Needham"
"Body, Mind & Spirit"
Published on 1959-01-01 by Cambridge University Press

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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.

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