Science and Civilisation in China Volume III : Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth
by Joseph Needham
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Science and Civilisation in China Volume III : Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth
- Original publication date
- 1959
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- This work is Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth, volume 3 of Science and Civilization in China. Please do not combine with other volumes in the series.
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