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Book Synopsis History of Chemistry in China by : Zhi Dao
Download or read book History of Chemistry in China written by Zhi Dao and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in the History of Chemistry in China, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.
Book Synopsis The Study of Change by : James Reardon-Anderson
Download or read book The Study of Change written by James Reardon-Anderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Western missionaries introduced modern chemistry to China in the 1860s, they called this discipline hua-hsueh, literally, 'the study of change'. In this first full-length work on science in modern China, James Reardon-Anderson describes the introduction and development of chemistry in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and examines the impact of the science on language reform, education, industry, research, culture, society, and politics. Throughout the book, Professor Reardon-Anderson sets the advance of chemistry in the broader context of the development of science in China and the social and political changes of this era. His thesis is that science fared well at times when a balance was struck between political authority and free social development. Based on Chinese and English sources, the narrative moves from detailed descriptions of particular chemical processes and innovations to more general discussions of intellectual and social history, and provides a fascinating account of an important episode in the intellectual history of modern China.
Book Synopsis The History of Chemistry in China by : William Henry Adolph
Download or read book The History of Chemistry in China written by William Henry Adolph and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short History of Chemistry by : James Riddick Partington
Download or read book A Short History of Chemistry written by James Riddick Partington and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic exposition explores the origins of chemistry, alchemy, early medical chemistry, nature of atmosphere, theory of valency, laws and structure of atomic theory, and much more.
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Modern Chemistry by : Noboru Hirota
Download or read book A History of Modern Chemistry written by Noboru Hirota and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is a translation of the book entitles Gendai Kagakusi (A History of Modern Chemistry) published by Kyoto University Press in 2013.
Book Synopsis Science in Traditional China by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science in Traditional China written by Joseph Needham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the invention of gunpowder and firearms, but also, through the search for macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry.
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-05-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
Author :Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent Publisher :Harvard University Press ISBN 13 :9780674396593 Total Pages :330 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (965 download)
Book Synopsis A History of Chemistry by : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Download or read book A History of Chemistry written by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents chemistry as a science in search of an identity, or rather as a science whose identity has changed in response to its relation to society and other disciplines. This book discusses the conceptual, experimental, and technological challenges with wh
Book Synopsis Translating Science by : David C. Wright
Download or read book Translating Science written by David C. Wright and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Chinese in the 19th century deal with the enormous influx of Western science? What were the patterns behind this watershed in Chinese intellectual history? This work deals with those responsible for the translation of science, the major issues they were confronted with, and their struggles; the Chinese translators’ views of its overpowering influence on, and interaction with their own great tradition, those of the missionary-translators who used natural theology to propagate the Gospel, and those of John Fryer, a ‘secular missionary’, who founded the Shanghai Polytechnic and edited the Chinese Scientific Magazine. With due attention for the techniques of translation, the formation of new terms, the mechanisms behind the ‘struggle for survival’ between the, in this case, chemical terms, all amply illustrated at the hand of original texts. The final chapter charts the intellectual influence of Western science, the role of the scientific metaphor in political discourse, and the translation of science from a collection of mere ‘techniques’ to a source of political inspiration.
Book Synopsis A Study of Chinese Alchemy by : Obed Simon Johnson
Download or read book A Study of Chinese Alchemy written by Obed Simon Johnson and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Paperback.156p. In China as elsewhere, alchemy is a doctrine aiming to afford an understanding of the principles underlying the formation and functioning of the cosmos. The alchemist overcomes the limits of individuality, and ascends to higher states of being; he becomes, in Chinese terms, a zhenren or Authentic Man. Chinese alchemy went through a complex and not yet entirely understood development along its twenty centuries of documented history. The two main traditions are conventionally known as waidan or "external alchemy" and neidan or "internal alchemy". The bulk of the Chinese alchemical sources is found in the Daozang (Taoist Canon), the largest collection of Taoist texts. The cosmos as we know it is conceived of as the final stage in a series of spontaneous transmutations stemming from original non-existence. This process entails the apparent separation of primeval Unity into the two complementary principles, yin and yang. Their re-union generates the cosmos. When the process is completed, the cosmos is subject to the laws of cosmology. The alchemist's task is to retrace this process backwards. Alchemy, whether "external" or "internal," providessupport to the adept, leading one to the point when, as some texts put it, "Heaven spontaneously reveals its secrets." Its practice must be performed under the close supervision of a master, who provides the "oral instructions" (koujue) necessary to an understanding of the processes that the adept performs with minerals and metals, or undergoes within himself. Modern study of the alchemical literature began in the present century, after the Canon was reprinted and made widely available in 1926. Johnson's work, originally published in 1928, remains one of the full book length treatises in English on the subject.
Book Synopsis The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5 by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5 written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
Book Synopsis The Historical Background of Chemistry by : Henry Marshall Leicester
Download or read book The Historical Background of Chemistry written by Henry Marshall Leicester and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early practical chemistry. Scientific ideas of the ancient world. Greek science. Hellenistic culture and the rise of alchemy. Chinese alchemy. Arabic alchemy. The transmission of chemistry to the west. The fourteenth and fifteeth century, a periodic of technical chemistry. Chemical practice and theory in the first half of the seventeenth century. The spread of atomistic theories. Theories of the eighteenth century: phlogiston and affinity. Laboratory discoveries of the eighteenth century: the chemistry of gases. Lavoisier and the foundation of modern chemistry. The laws of atomic combination. Electrochemistry and chemical affinity. The development of organic chemistry: the radical and unitary theories. Organic chemistry from the theory of types to the structural theory. The systematization of inorganic chemistry. Physical chemistry in the nineteenth century. The development of chemistry as a profession during the nineteenth century. Radioactivity and atomic structure.
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China: Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1976-05-13 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
Book Synopsis The Origins of Sciences in China by : Xiaoyuan Jiang
Download or read book The Origins of Sciences in China written by Xiaoyuan Jiang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume outlines the origins of a wide range of disciplines including astronomy, agricultural science, medicine, physics, chemistry, and natural history. It provides an overview of China’s history of science and technology, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin times when the arts had free expression and the schools of thought were unrestricted. It also includes a glossary and comparison of the chronicle of events in China and the West for reference. This is the first volume in the series History of Science and Technology in China. History of Science and Technology in China is the first series with high academic values on general history of Chinese science and technology, with contributions by top-notch scholars in this field. This 5-volume work provides an encyclopedic historical panorama of Chinese scientific and technological development. It unfolds the history of Chinese science and technology through a clarified timeline from as early as the far ancient times to the very present. This work consists of five volumes: Origins of Chinese Sciences, Ancient Chinese Studies of Heaven and Earth, High Tide of Chinese Sciences, Theoretical and Technological Development, and Western Influences.
Book Synopsis Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry by : Joseph Needham
Download or read book Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry written by Joseph Needham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-06-20 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume VI Part 3 of Science and Civilisation in China contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugarcane technology from ancient times to the early twentieth century. Dr. Daniels includes an account of the contribution of Chinese techniques and machinery to the development of world sugar technology in the premodern period, devoting special attention to the transfer of this technology to the countries of Southeast and East Asia in the period after the sixteenth century. The second, by Nicholas K. Menzies, is a history of forestry in China. Dr. Menzies identifies a tradition of forest management that can be traced to the earliest Chinese written records, and describes methods of silviculture, and the major timber species used in Chinese forestry. A final section compares China's history of deforestation with the cases of Europe and Japan. Each of these works will interest scholars of Chinese science, culture, and ancient agriculture as well as historians of science.
