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| Manufacturer | : | Cambridge University Press |
| Label | : | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher | : | Cambridge University Press |
| Product Group | : | Book |
| Product Type Name | : | ABIS_BOOK |
| Studio | : | Cambridge University Press |
| EAN | : | 9780521058018 |
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After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the Earth follow: geography and cartography, geology, seismology and mineralogy. Dr Needham distinguishes parallel traditions of scientific cartography and religious cosmography in East and West, discussing orbocentric wheel-maps, the origins of the rectangular grid system, sailing charts and relief maps, Chinese survey methods, and the impact of Renaissance cartography on the East. Finally-and here Dr Needham's work has no Western predecessors-there are full accounts of the Chinese contribution to geology and mineralogy.
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