- Bib ID:
- 428550
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Cambridge, MIT Press [c1973]
- xxxvi, 334 p. illus. 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 026214011X
- Series:
- M.I.T. East Asian science series ; v. 2.
- Full contents:
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- 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)
- Notes:
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- "Compiled in honor of the seventieth birthday of Joseph Needham, F.R.S., F.B.A."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Science -- China -- History
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Available From:
- $12.50
- Copyright:
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