Cambridge University Press, 1954. — 374 p. The Science and Civilisation in China series is the work of Joseph Needham and an international team of collaborators, and is published by Cambridge University Press in seven volumes. The introductory part consists of brief accounts of (a) the geographical background, (b) the history of China, (c) the special characteristics of the...
Cambridge University Press, 1956. — 697 p. All necessary preliminaries having now been completed, we are free to the part which Chinese philosophy played in relation to the development: scientific It is a commonplace that in China even the word philosophy' did not mean quite it came to mean in Europe, being much more ethical and Social than metaphysical. Nevertheless, the...
Cambridge University Press, 1959. — 926 p. 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...
Cambridge University Press, 1962. — 432 p. Pursuing our exploration of the almost limit less caverns of Chinese scientific history, so much of which has never yet come to the'knowledge and recognition of the rest of the world, we now approach the glittering veins of physics and physical technology; a subject which forms a single whole, constituting Volume Four, though delivered...
Cambridge University Press, 1965. — 758 p. Pursing our exploration of the almost limitless caverns of Chinese scientific history, so much of which has never yet come to the knowledge and recognition of the rest of the world, we now approach the glittering veins of physics and physical technology; a subject which forms a single whole, constituting Volume Four, though delivered...
Cambridge University Press, 1971. — 929 p. Pursuing our exploration of the almost limitless caverns of Chinese scientific history, so much of which has never yet come to the knowledge and recognition of the rest of the world, we now approach the glittering veins of physics and physical technology; a subject which forms a single whole, constituting Volume Four, though delivered...
Cambridge University Press, 1985. — 477 p. Of all the products from the ancient world, few can compare in significance with the Chinese inventions ofpaper and printing. Both have played a profound role in shaping world civilisations; and both have exerted a far-reaching impact for a very long time on the intellectual as well as the daily lives of countless people every- where.
Cambridge University Press, 1974. — 509 p. It is now nearly a dozen years since the preface for Vol. 4 of this series (Physics and Physical Technology) was written; since then much has been done towards the later volumes. We are now happy to be able to present a substantial part of Vol. 5 (Spagyri- cal Discovery and Invention), i.e. alchemy and early chemistry, which go...
1st edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1976. — 516 p. — ISBN10: 0521210283, ISBN13: 978-0521210287. Reprinted 1997. The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and...
1st edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1980. — 820 p. — ISBN: 052108573X. Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yü, Lu Gwei-Djen, Nathan Sivin The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early...
1st edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1983. — 608 p. — ISBN10: 0521085748, ISBN13: 9780521085748. By Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen. The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early...
1st edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 612 p. — ISBN: 052132727X, ISBN13: 9780521327275. By Joseph Needham, Robin D. S. Yates. Science and Civilisation in China Volume V Part 6 is the first of the three parts dealing with the arts of war in ancient and medieval China. (Part 7--on gunpowder and all aspects of explosive weapons--has already been published, while Part...
1st edition. — Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 756 p. — ISBN10: 0521087317, ISBN13: 978-0521087315. The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology (which...
Reprint edition.— Cambridge University Press, 1984. — 768 p. — ISBN10: 0521250765, ISBN13: 978-0521250764. Joseph Needham, Francesca Bray. This second part of the sixth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is the first to be written by a collaborator. Francesca Bray, working closely with Dr Needham, has produced the most comprehensive study of Chinese agriculture to be...
Reprint edition.— Cambridge University Press, 1996. — 772 p. — ISBN10: 0521419999, ISBN13: 9780521419994. Joseph Needham, Christian Daniels, Nicholas K. Menzies. Volume VI Part 3 of Science and Civilisation in China contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugarcane technology from ancient times to the early twentieth...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 769 p. — ISBN10: 0521652707, ISBN13: 978-0521652704. Today Chinese cuisine is enjoyed in many parts of the world, yet little is known in the West about the technologies involved in making its characteristic ingredients. H. T. Huang's book is the first history of Chinese food technology in a Western language. It describes the conversion of...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 280 p. The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces medicine. Five essays are included by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited and expanded upon by the editor, Nathan Sivin. The essays offer broad and readable accounts of medicine in culture, including...
Cambridge University Press, 1998. — 502 p. Christoph Harbsmeier, Joseph Needham. Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 7 Part 1 is the first book in the final volume of this unique resource. The Chinese culture is the only culture in the world that has developed systematic logical definitions and reflections on its own and on the basis of a non-Indo-European language....
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0521087325, ISBN13: 9780521087322. Joseph Needham, Kenneth Robinson. Joseph Needham, who died in 1995, was the greatest British historian of China of the last 100 years. His Science and Civilisation in China series caused a seismic shift in western perceptions of China, revealed as perhaps the world's most scientifically and...
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