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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- The Story of Maps by Lloyd A. Brown in Table of Contents (1), and Table of Contents (2)
- History of the Former Han Dynasty by Pan Ku on page 106, and Back Matter
- Vistas in Astronomy by P. Beer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Arithmetic by G Nicomachus on page 32, and Back Matter
- The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: Companion and Commentary by Shen Kangshen in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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