Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition.
By: Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan Sivin.
Contributors: Needham, Joseph, 1900-; Nakayama, Shigeru, 1928- ed.; Sivin, Nathan, ed.
Series: M.I.T. East Asian science series,; v. 2
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Science -- China -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Compiled in honor of the seventieth birthday of Joseph Needham, F.R.S., F.B.A."
Table of contents: title: The historian of science as ecumenical man: a meditation in the Shingon temple of Kongōsammai-in on Kōyasan, by J. Needham.; title: Joseph Needham and the science of China, by D. J. de Solla Price.; title: Joseph Needham, organic philosopher, by S. Nakayama.; title: China, Europe, and the origins of modern science: Needham's the grand titration, by A. C. Graham.; title: The Chinese concept of nature, by M. Yosida.; title: Chinese astronomy: development and limiting factors, by K. Yabuuti.; title: A systematic approach to the Mohist optics (ca. 300 B.C.), by A. C. Graham and N. Sivin.; title: Elixir plants: the Chʼun-yang Lü Chen-jen yao shih chih (Pharmaceutical manual of the adept Lü Chʼun-yang), by Ho Peng Yoke, B. Lim, and F. Morsingh.; title: 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.; title: A neglected source for the early history of anesthesia in China and Japan, by S. Miyasita.; title: An introductory bibliography of traditional Chinese science: books and articles in Western languages, by N. Sivin (p. [279]-314)