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).

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The Jesuit legacy -- Recovering the Chinese classics -- The rise of Imperial Chinese manufacturing and trade -- Science and the Protestant mission -- From textbooks to Darwin: modern science arrives -- Government arsenals spur new technologies -- The displacement of traditional Chinese science and medicine -- Appendixes.

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Philological study of the topic (Diagrams of the Records of Technology). Note on Kaogong ji with reference to the original: "... earliest work with an interest for the historian of Chinese technology, the Kaogong ji (Record of the scrutiny of crafts). It is part of the Zhouli 周禮 and dates from the fifth century BC. It contains details of the making of carriages, weapons, boats, and musical instruments and details on compounding bronze."--Cf. Wilkinson, Chinese history, a manual, p. 667.

v. 1. Introductory orientations.--v. 2. History of scientific thought.--v. 3. Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth.--v. 4. Physics and physical technology: pt. 1. Physics, with the collaboration of Wang Ling and the special co-operation of Kenneth Girdwood Robinson. pt. 2. Mechanical engineering. pt. 3. Civil engineering and nautics with the collaboration of Wang Ling and Lu Gwei-Djen.--v. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology: pt. 1. Paper and printing / by Tsien Tsuen-hsuin. pt. 2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. pt. 4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus, theories, and gifts. pt. 5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy / with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 6. Military technology, missiles and sieges. pt. 7. Military technology, the gunpowder epic. pt. 9. Textile technology, spinning and reeling / by Dieter Kuhn. pt. 13. Mining / by Peter J. Golas.--v. 6. Biology and biological technology. pt. 1. Botany. pt. 2. Agriculture / by Francesca Bray. pt. 3. Agro-industries and forestry / by Christian Daniels, Nicholas K. Menzies. pt. 5. Fermentations and food science / by H.T. Huang. pt. 6. Medicine -- v. 7. Language and logic / by Christoph Harbsmeier. pt. 1-
Publisher description: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam022/54004723.html
Table of contents: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam022/54004723.html (above for v. 6, pt. 5).

The epic of gunpowder and firearms, developing from alchemy -- Comparative macrobiotics -- The history and rationale of acupuncture and moxibustion -- Attitudes toward time and change as compared with Europe -- Appendix: Table of Chinese dynasties.

Antoher copy Gleeson Library.

The rise of early modern science : Islam, China, and the West / Toby E. Huff.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-406) and index.

Introduction -- 1. The comparative study of science -- 2. Arabic science and the Islamic world -- 3. Reason and rationality in Islam and the West -- 4. The European legal revolution -- 5. Madrasas, universities, and sciences -- 6. Cultural climates and the ethos of science -- 7. Science and civilization in China -- 8. Science and social organization in China -- 9. The rise of early modern science -- Epilogue: Educational reform and attitudes towards science since the eighteenth century.

Publisher's description: This study examines the long-standing question of why modern science arose only in the West and not in the civilizations of Islam and China, despite the fact that medieval Islam and China were more scientifically advanced. To explain this outcome, Tony E. Huff explores the cultural - religious, legal, philosophical, and institutional - contexts within which science was practiced in Islam, China, and the West. He finds in the history of law and the European cultural revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries major clues as to why the ethos of science arose in the West, permitting the breakthrough to modern science that did not occur elsewhere. This line of inquiry leads to novel ideas about the centrality of the legal concept of corporation, which is unique to the West and gave rise to the concepts of neutral space and free inquiry.

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Introduction -- 1. Aims and Methods -- 2. The Social and Institutional Framework of the Chinese Sciences -- 3. The Social and Institutional Framework of Greek Science -- 4. The Fundamental Issues of Greek Science -- 5. The Fundamental Issues of the Chinese Sciences -- 6. Chinese and Greek Sciences Compared -- Appendix -- Chronology of Historical Events -- Bibliography -- Index and Glossary.

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Keywords: European influences on Chinese science and technology, 16th, 17th, 18th, centuries; comments on Mendoza, Ricci, French Jesuits and French Royal mathematicians and academics; England's Royal Society, 17th-18th century astronomy, observatories, medicine and medical science, mechanics and mechanical arts, printing, movable type, porcelain.