Science and Civilisation in China: History of Scientific Thought - Hardcover

Joseph Needham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521058007 ISBN 13: 9780521058001

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1956

Inhaltsangabe

The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we are brought on to the fundamental ideas which dominated scientific thinking in the Chinese middle ages. The author opens his discussion by considering the remote and pictographic origins of words fundamental in scientific discourse, and then sets forth the influential doctrines of the Two Forces and the Five Elements. Subsequently he writes of the important sceptical tradition, the effects of Buddhist thought, and the Neo-Confucian climax of Chinese naturalism. Last comes a discussion of the conception of Laws of Nature in China and the West.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1956
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521058007
• ISBN 13: 9780521058001
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 722
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Avery; https://www.avery.fr/; ; chemin des peupliers 27; Dardilly; Frankreich