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Books by Joseph Needham
  | | Science in Traditional China; A Comparative Perspective(1st Edition) by Joseph Needham Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1981 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-79439-9, ISBN: 0-674-79439-7 " 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 ..." |
 | | Science, religion, and reality by Joseph Needham Unbekannter Einband, 396 Pages, Published 1970 by Kennikat Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8046-0926-5, ISBN: 0-8046-0926-8 |
 | | Within the Four Seas(1st Edition) The Dialogue of East and West by Joseph Needham Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2016 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-99747-9, ISBN: 1-138-99747-1 "First published in 1969. Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems. The book discusses the valuable social and intellectual influences which have flowed to Europe from South as well as East Asia, and suggests t ..." |
 | | A History of Embryology by Joseph Needham, Arthur Hughes Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-47554-0, ISBN: 1-107-47554-6 "First published in 1959 as the second edition of a 1934 original, this book describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth through Graeco-Roman antiquity to the close of the eighteenth century. The text is illustrated with plates and diagrams showing the development of scientific understanding over time, first through artistic representations of gestation and later through scientific drawings and ..." |
 | | The Teacher of Nations Addresses and Essays in Commemoration of the Visit to England of the Great Czech Educationalist Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) by Joseph Needham Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-51162-0, ISBN: 1-107-51162-3 "Originally published in 1942, this book contains the text of eleven lectures originally delivered the previous year to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the visit of the great educator Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) to Cambridge in 1641. The lectures all come from a background in education or writing, and each describes the effect that Comenius has had on their experience of education, the world, and social order. This book will be of ..." |
 | | The Grand Titration-Science and Society in East and West(2nd Edition) by Joseph Needham Paperback, Published 1979 by University Of Toronto Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-6359-5, ISBN: 0-8020-6359-4 |
 | | The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China(Abridged) An Abridgement of Joseph Needham's Original Text by Colin A. Ronan, Joseph Needham, Colin Alistair Ronan Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 1984 by Cambridge University Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-521-29286-3, ISBN: 0-521-29286-7 "Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research ..." |
 | | Time The Refreshing River: Essays and Addresses, 1932-1942 (Classic Reprint) by Joseph Needham Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-331-45534-2, ISBN: 0-331-45534-X |
 | | Chemical Embryology, Vol. 1 by Joseph Needham Hardcover, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-0-484-38328-8, ISBN: 0-484-38328-0 |
 | | Order and Life(Reprint) by Joseph Needham Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-50483-7, ISBN: 1-107-50483-X "First published in 1936, this book contains the text of the Terry Lectures for 1934-5, originally delivered at Yale University. Needham discusses the nature, deployment, and hierarchical continuity of biological order, as well as the history of scientific investigation into animal development through embryology, genetics and the study of mitosis. The lectures also take the opportunity to draw implicit conclusions on the nature and exist ..." |
 | | The Grand Titration(1st Edition) Science and Society in East and West (China: History, Philosopy, Economic) by Joseph Needham Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-84875-6, ISBN: 0-415-84875-X "First published in 1969.The historical civilization of China is, with the Indian and European-Semitic, one of the three greatest in the world, yet only relatively recently has any enquiry been begun into its achievements in science and technology. Between the first and fifteenth centuries the Chinese were generally far in advance of Europe and it was not until the scientific revolution of the Renaissance that Europe drew ahead. Througho ..." |
 | | The Science Religion and Reality by Joseph Needham Hardcover, 406 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-169-78295-2, ISBN: 1-169-78295-7 "1926. Essays on science, religion, and reality by various authors. Contents: Introduction; Magic Science and Religion; Historical relations of religion and science; Science and religion in the nineteenth century, The domain of physical science; Mechanistic biology and the religious consciousness; Sphere of religion; Religion and psychology; Science Christianity and Modern Civilization; Conclusion." |
 | | Heavenly Clockwork(2nd Edition) The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China by Joseph Needham, Ling Wang, John H. Combridge Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-08716-2, ISBN: 0-521-08716-3 "A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the history of science and technology. This study revealed six centuries of mechanical clockwork preceding the first mechanical escapement clocks of the West of about AD 1300. Detailed and fully illustrated accounts of elaborate Chinese clocks are accompanied by a discussi ..." |
 | | Science and Civilisation in China Volume 5 Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 12, Ceramic Technology by Nigel Wood, Rose Kerr, Joseph Needham, C. Cullen, Ts'ai Mei-Fen, Zhang Fukang, M. W. Daly Hardcover, 968 Pages, Published 2004 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-83833-7, ISBN: 0-521-83833-9 "How were Chinese pots made, glazed and fired? Why did China discover porcelain more than one thousand years before the West? What are the effects of China's influence on world ceramics? These questions (and many more) are answered in this lavishly-illustrated history of Chinese ceramic technology. The scene is set through the use of historical texts, archaeological excavation, and the principles of ceramic science. Chapters follow on th ..." |
 | | Time the Refreshing River(Updated) Science, Religion and Socialism and Other Essays by Joseph Needham Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 1986 by Spokesman Books ISBN-13: 978-0-85124-439-6, ISBN: 0-85124-439-4 "No Time Read a customer review or write one ." |
 | | Science in Traditional China(1st Edition) a comparative perspective by Joseph Needham Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1981 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-79438-2, ISBN: 0-674-79438-9 "No Science in Traditional China: a Comparative Perspective Read a customer review or write one ." |
 | | Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5 Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts by Joseph Needham, Nathan Sivin, Lu Gwei-Djen, Ho Ping-Yu, Ping-Yü Ho, C. Cullen, Et Al. Hardcover, 804 Pages, Published 1980 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-08573-1, ISBN: 0-521-08573-X "Chen Kao E IS. Declarations of Perfected, or Realised, (Immortals). Each entry gives particulars in the following order: (a) title, alphabetically arranged, with characters; (/>) alternative title, if any; (c) translation of title; (. / ) cross-reference to closely related book, if any ; («) dynasty; (/) date as accurate as possible; (?) name of author or editor, with characters; (h) title of other book, if the text of the work now ..." |
 | | Moulds of Understanding - A Pattern of Natural Philosophy. Edited and Introduced by Gary Werskey. Allen & Unwin. 1976. by Joseph Needham, Gary Werskey Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1976 by Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-0-04-925011-6, ISBN: 0-04-925011-6 |
 | | Complexity and Evolution(1st Edition) by Max Pettersson, Joseph Needham Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-11795-1, ISBN: 0-521-11795-X "This unique book ranges across the physical, biological and social sciences in the development of its primary theme, that there are nine major "integrative levels" that can be recognized. The term integrative levels was first used by Joseph Needham in 1937, and has two key features. The first is that members of a given integrative level are unified entities and the second is that a member of one level is commonly composed of parts that ..." |
 | | The Chemistry of Life(Reprint) Eight Lectures on the History of Biochemistry by Joseph Needham, Robert Hill, F. G. Young, Malcolm Dixon Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2008 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-08885-5, ISBN: 0-521-08885-2 "This assembly of lectures, each on a major aspect of the development of biochemistry, should appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of science and the nature of living things. Seven of the eight lectures are by eminent biochemists and describe the development of their own subject from the inside; the eighth is a more general one by a professional historian of science. They contain a good deal of information not readily availab ..." |
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