Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
MIT Press,
[1973]
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| Series: | M.I.T. East Asian science series ;
v. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- The historian of science as ecumenical man: a meditation in the Shingon temple of Kongosammai-in on Koyasan, by J. Needham
- Joseph Needham and the science of China, by D. J. de Solla Price
- Joseph Needham, organic philosopher, by S. Nakayama
- China, Europe, and the origins of modern science: Needham's the grand titration, by A. C. Graham
- The Chinese concept of nature, by M. Yosida
- Chinese astronomy: development and limiting factors, by K. Yabuuti
- A systematic approach to the Mohist optics (ca. 300 B.C.), by A. C. Graham and N. Sivin
- Elixir plants: the Chun-yang Lu Chen-jen yao shih chih (Pharmaceutical manual of the adept Lu Chun-yang), by Ho Peng Yoke, B. Lim, and F. Morsingh
- Man as a medicine: pharmacological and ritual aspects of traditional therapy using drugs derived from the human body, by W. C. Cooper and N. Sivin
- A neglected source for the early history of anesthesia in China and Japan, by S. Miyasita
- An introductory bibliography of traditional Chinese science: books and articles in Western languages, by N. Sivin (p. [279]-314)