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Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China - Couverture rigide

Bodde, Derk

 
9780824813345: Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0824813340 ISBN 13 : 9780824813345
Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 1991

Synopsis

The Chinese have given the world paper, printing, porcelain, gunpowder, the mariner's compass and other inventions important to the history and development of science. Yet it was Europe, not China, that experienced the scientific and technological revolution that transformed the world from the 17th century onward. In this study, Derk Bodde examines the cultural requisites for science and technology in early China and other pre-modern civilizations. Bodde focuses on the wide range of intellectual and social forces that may have favoured or disfavoured the development of science and technology in China - forces overwhelmingly humanistic, such as the written classical language, concepts of time and space, religious attitudes, theories of government and society, moral and social values, and attitudes toward nature. He also compares and contrasts similar factors in the West.

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Éditeur
University of Hawai'i Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0824813340
ISBN 13 
9780824813345
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
480
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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