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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/354284 Title: Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition. Author: Joseph Needham; Shigeru Nakayama; Nathan Sivin Publisher: Cambridge, MIT Press [©1973] ISBN/ISSN: 026214011X 9780262140119 OCLC:354284

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Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition.

Author:	Joseph Needham; Shigeru Nakayama; Nathan Sivin
Publisher:	Cambridge, MIT Press [©1973]
Series:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; M.I.T. East Asian science series
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Chinese science; explorations of an ancient tradition. Cambridge, MIT Press [c1973] (OCoLC)647327321
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Joseph Needham; Shigeru Nakayama; Nathan Sivin Find more information about:
ISBN:	026214011X 9780262140119
OCLC Number:	354284
Notes:	"Compiled in honor of the seventieth birthday of Joseph Needham, F.R.S., F.B.A."
Description:	xxxvi, 334 p. illus. 24 cm.
Contents:	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)
Series Title:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology.; M.I.T. East Asian science series
Responsibility:	Edited by Shigeru Nakayama and Nathan Sivin.

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