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Science and Civilisation in China (1954–present) is an ongoing series of books about the history of science and technology in China published by Cambridge University Press. It was initiated and edited by British historian Joseph Needham (1900–1995).
Science and Civilisation in China is recognised as one of the most remarkable works of scholarship in the twentieth century. Originally proposed as a single volume of 600 to 800 pages, the project now encompasses seventeen books published under the direct supervision of Joseph Needham, from the first volume which appeared in 1954, through to ...
"Joseph Needham directly supervised the publication of seventeen books in the Science and Civilisation series, from the first volume, which appeared in 1954, through to Volume 6, Part III, which was in press at the time of his death in march 1995.
The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human culture.
Science and Civilisation in China is recognised as one of the most remarkable works of scholarship in the twentieth century. Originally proposed as a single volume of 600 to 800 pages, the project now encompasses seventeen books published under the direct supervision of Joseph Needham, from the first volume which appeared in 1954, through to ...
The attachment of Chinese medicine to its own culture is so strong that it has not yet entirely come out of it. All the sciences of ancient times and the Middle Ages had their distinct characteristics, whether European, Arabic, Indian or Chinese. Only modern sci-ence has subsumed these ethnic entities into a universal mathematised culture. But ...
The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human culture.
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.
In the early Chinese sciences, by contrast, where generation and transformation are intrinsic to existence, fixity and stasis occur only as a result of concerted action and therefore demand explanation; motion and change are a given and seldom need be explained with reference to their causes.
methods and devices which China had long before developed spontaneously out of her own needs and her own resources. The thesis most central to Needham's work, namely that the crucial determinants of China's scientific achievement-and ultimately of its failure to develop modern science-were preponderantly social and economic