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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 12, Ceramic Technology

by Nigel (University Of Westminster) Wood e Rose Kerr

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 How were Chinese pots made, glazed and fired? Why did China discover porcelain more than one thousand years before the West? What are the effects of China's influence on world ceramics? These questions (and many more) are answered in this history of Chinese ceramic technology.
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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions And Reflections - Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions And Reflections

by Joseph Needham

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 Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China series caused a seismic shift in western perceptions of China. But why did the scientific and industrial revolutions not happen in China? In the concluding volume of this series, Needham reflects on this question and gives fascinating insights into his great intellectual quest.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 5, Fermentations And Food Science

by H. T. (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge) Huang

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 Today Chinese cuisine is enjoyed all over the world, yet little is known about the technologies involved in making its characteristic ingredients. As the first history of Chinese food technology in a western language, this books fills the gap outlining the origins and evolution of the major food processing techniques.
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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 5, Chemistry And Chemical Technology, Part 11, Ferrous Metallurgy

by Donald B. (University Of Copenhagen) Wagner

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 Comprehensive historical account of the production and use of iron and steel in China in their political and economic context. The technology that came originally from the West was transformed in China to a large-scale concentrated industry whose relations with the state were a major factor in Chinese history.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning And Reeling - Volume 5, Chemistry And Chemical Technology, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning And Reeling

by Dieter (Bayerische-Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany) Kuhn e Joseph Needham

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 This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 6, Medicine

by Joseph Needham

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 The latest volume in Joseph Needham's magisterial revelation of China's premodern 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. Professor Sivin's introduction discusses the essays and surveys recent scholarship across the world.
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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 6, Biology And Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries And Forestry

by Christian (Tokyo University Of Foreign Studies) Daniels, Joseph (University Of Cambridge) Needham e Nicholas K. (Ford Foundation, Beijing) Menzies

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 Volume 6. Part III of Science and Civilisation in China contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early twentieth century. The second, by Nicholas K. Menzies, is a history of forestry in China.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 2, Agriculture

by Francesca Bray e Joseph Needham

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 This second part of the sixth volume of Joeph Needham's great enterprise is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated).
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 1, Physics

by Joseph Needham

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 Dr Needham's fourth volume traces the development of physics and physical technology in ancient and medieval China. It is conveniently divided into three separate parts, the present volume, IV:1, dealing with physics as such, IV:2 with mechanical engineering and IV:3 with civil engineering and nautics.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery And Invention: Historical Survey From Cinnabar Elixirs To Synthetic Insulin

by Joseph Needham

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 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 chemical technology.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 6, Military Technology: Missiles And Sieges

by Joseph (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge) Needham e Robin D. S. (Mcgill University, Montreal) Yates

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 Volume V Part 6 is the first of the three parts of Science and Civilisation in China which deal with the art of war in ancient and medieval China. Four sections follow the introduction: on the simple bow; on the cross-bow, standard weapon of the Han armies; and on pre-gunpowder artillery, including the invention of the trebuchet.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 7, Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic

by Joseph (Gonville And Caius College, Cambridge) Needham

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 The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 13, Mining

by Peter J. (University Of Denver) Golas

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 This is the first history of Chinese mining to appear in a western language. The author draws extensively not only on written material but on his own observations of traditional techniques in use today. The technology is placed in the context of the political, social and economic conditions in China.
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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1, Language And Logic In Traditional China

by Christoph (Universitetet I Oslo) Harbsmeier e Joseph Needham

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 Surveying the conceptual history of logical terminology in ancient China, this unique work in the Science and Civilisation in China series examines how the basic features of classical Chinese language made it a suitable medium for science in ancient China.
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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 5, Chemistry And Chemical Technology, Part 5, Spagyrical Discovery And Invention: Physiological Alchemy

by Joseph Needham

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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 5, Chemistry And Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery And Invention: Apparatus, Theories And Gi

by Ho Ping-Yu, Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-Djen e Nathan (University Of Pennsylvania) Sivin

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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 5, Chemistry And Chemical Technology, Part 2, Spagyrical Discovery And Invention: Magisteries Of Gold And Im

by Joseph Needham

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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 2, History Of Scientific Thought

by Joseph Needham

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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 3, Mathematics And The Sciences Of The Heavens And The Earth

by Joseph Needham

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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering

by Joseph Needham

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Science And Civilisation In China: Volume 4, Physics And Physical Technology, Part 3, Civil Engineering And Nautics

by Joseph Needham

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The Expression Of Emotion - Philosophical, Psychological And Legal Perspectives

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 The Expression of Emotion presents a series of new, cutting-edge essays on emotional expression written by leading philosophers, psychologists, and legal theorists. It highlights areas of interdisciplinary research interest, including facial expression, expressive action, and the role of both normativity and context in emotion perception.
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Science And Civilisation In China, Part 4, Traditional Botany: An Ethnobotanical Approach

by Georges Metailie

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 This highly illustrated volume offers a comprehensive account of botanical knowledge in China before the introduction of modern botany. Georges MÃ©tailiÃ© explores the perception and use of a wealth of plants in China until the end of the seventeenth century, proposing a new, non-teleological view of knowledge in ancient China.
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The New Comedy Of Greece And Rome

by Richard L. Hunter

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