TY  - BOOK
AU  - Needham,Joseph
AU  - Nakayama,Shigeru
AU  - Sivin,Nathan
TI  - Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition
T2  - M.I.T. East Asian science series,
SN  - 026214011X
AV  - Q127.C5 C555
U1  - 509/.51 
PY  - 1973///]
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Science
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Natuurwetenschappen
KW  - gtt
KW  - history
KW  - Science China, to c.1800
N1  - "Compiled in honor of the seventieth birthday of Joseph Needham, F.R.S., F.B.A."; Includes bibliographical references; The historian of science as ecumenical man: a meditation in the Shingon temple of Kongōsammai-in on Kōyasan, by J. Needham.--Joseph Needham and the science of China, by D. J. de Solla Price.--Joseph Needham, organic philosopher, by S. Nakayama.--China, Europe, and the origins of modern science: Needham's the grand titration, by A. C. Graham.--The Chinese concept of nature, by M. Yosida.--Chinese astronomy: development and limiting factors, by K. Yabuuti.--A systematic approach to the Mohist optics (ca. 300 B.C.), by A. C. Graham and N. Sivin.--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.--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.--A neglected source for the early history of anesthesia in China and Japan, by S. Miyasita.--An introductory bibliography of traditional Chinese science: books and articles in Western languages, by N. Sivin (p. [279]-314)
ER  -