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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Joseph Needham
出版Cambridge University Press, 1959
主題History / Asia / ChinaMedical / HistoryScience / Earth Sciences / GeneralScience / HistoryTechnology & Engineering / History
ISBN05210580159780521058018
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jfQ9E0u4pLAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.