Needham joseph teich mikulas (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, xxi, 490 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in worn dust jacket (but the front flap of the dust jacket is not price-clipped). This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Contains 20 essays, and a Bibliography of Needham's writings. Introduction by Mikulas Teich and Robert Young; The making of an honorary Taoist by Henry Holorenshaw; Bronze technology in the east: a metallurgical study of early Thai bronzes, with some speculations on the cultural transmission of technology by Cyril Stanley Smith; The crank in Graeco-Roman antiquity by A. G. Drachmann; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science in India and some problems of comparative studies by A. Rahman; The inner elixir (Nei Tan);Chinese physiological alchemy by Lu Gwei-Djen; The medico-chemical world of the Paracelsians by Allen G. Debus; The spectre of Van Helmont and the idea of continuity in the history of chemistry by Walter Pagel; William Dell and the idea of university by Charles Webster; Reasons and evaluation in the history of science by Mary Hesse; Some evaluations of reason in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century natural philosophy by P.M. Rattansi; Explanation and gravity by Gerd Buchdahl; Tragedy in the history of science by Jerome R. Ravetz; Time and motion: reflections on the non-existence of time by Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli (translated by Thomas B. Settle); A note on Harvey's 'egg' as Pandora's 'box' by I. Bernard Cohen; The [Star of David], [pentacle], and [octogram], and other geometrical and scientific talismans and symbolisms by Derek J. de Solla Price; Botanical nomenclature and its translation by Andre Haudricourt (translated by M.J.S. Rudwick); The role of science in the industrial revolution: a study of Josiah Wedgwood as a scientist and industrial chemist by Neil McKendrick; Industrial revolution and the rise of the science of geology by Roy Porter; The historiographic and ideological contexts of the nineteenth-century debate on man's place in nature by Robert Young; From 'enchyme' to 'cyto-skeleton': the development of ideas on the chemical organization of living matter by Mikulas Teich. ISBN 0435549251.…