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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts
The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. …
Health Care in Eleventh-Century China
By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China …
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 6, Medicine
The latest volume in Joseph Needham’s magisterial review of China’s premodern scientific and technological traditions introduces the history of medicine. Following the deaths of …
Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China
Granting the Seasons
China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty …
Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China
Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China
Sivin devotes the first half of his book to an interpretive exploration of the history of classical Chinese medicine, outlining in detail the evolution of its essential concepts …
Chinese Alchemy
Health Care in Eleventh-Century China
By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. In ancient China …
Way and the Word
The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophisticationeach based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this …
The Way and the Word
The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication—each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this …
Granting the Seasons
China’s most sophisticated system of computational astronomy was created for a Mongol emperor who could neither read nor write Chinese, to celebrate victory over China after forty …