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The Origins of Sciences in China

History of Science and Technology in China Volume 1

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Xiaoyuan Jiang

    1. School of History and Culture Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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  • Offers a comprehensive chronological re-construction
  • Provides encyclopedic knowledge of various themes in the Chinese history of science and technology
  • Co-authored by leading experts in the field

Part of the book series: History of Science and Technology in China (HSTC)

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Table of contents (16 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. The Astronomy in Ancient China: An Overview

    • Xiaoyuan Jiang
    Pages 1-37

  3. Pre-Qin Period: Science and Technology in Contending Schools

    • Wusan Dai
    Pages 39-87

  4. Chinese Agronomy and the Development of Agronomy Concepts

    • Xiongsheng Zeng
    Pages 89-109

  5. Kaogong ji and Ancient Chinese Handicraft

    • Wusan Dai
    Pages 111-145

  6. From the Medical Books on Bamboo Slips to the Classics

    • Yuqun Liao
    Pages 147-183

  7. Literature on Bamboo Slips and Tablets and the History of Mathematics of China

    • Dahai Zou
    Pages 185-221

  8. The Development of the Traditional Metrology in China

    • Zengjian Guan
    Pages 223-251

  9. The Outlook on the Universe of the Chinese in Ancient Period

    • Weixing Niu
    Pages 253-279

  10. The Architecture in Ancient China

    • Xinian Fu
    Pages 281-325

  11. The Angle Concept and Angle Measurement in Ancient China

    • Zengjian Guan
    Pages 327-346

  12. The Shipbuilding and Shipping Industry in Ancient China

    • Longfei Xi, Hequn Shi
    Pages 347-398

  13. The Development of Bronze Casting in Pre-Qin Period

    • Lu Wang, Jianjun Mei
    Pages 399-447

  14. Zenghouyi’s Bells and the Ancient Chinese Rhyming

    • Zengjian Guan
    Pages 449-470

  15. Craft in Bronze Kingdom: The Ancient Chinese Casting

    • Derui Tan
    Pages 471-534

  16. Chinese Alchemy

    • Shaorong Meng
    Pages 535-589

  17. The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art and Liu Hui

    • Shuchun Guo
    Pages 591-667

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 669-962
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About this book

This volume outlines the origins of a wide range of disciplines including astronomy, agricultural science, medicine, physics, chemistry, and natural history. It provides an overview of China’s history of science and technology, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin times when the arts had free expression and the schools of thought were unrestricted. It also includes a glossary and comparison of the chronicle of events in China and the West for reference. This is the first volume in the series History of Science and Technology in China.


History of Science and Technology in China is the first series with high academic values on general history of Chinese science and technology, with contributions by top-notch scholars in this field. This 5-volume work provides an encyclopedic historical panorama of Chinese scientific and technological development. It unfolds the history of Chinese science and technology through a clarified timeline from as early as the farancient times to the very present. This work consists of five volumes: Origins of Chinese Sciences, Ancient Chinese Studies of Heaven and Earth, High Tide of Chinese Sciences, Theoretical and Technological Development, and Western Influences.

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  • School of History and Culture Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Xiaoyuan Jiang

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Xiaoyuan Jiang, Dean of the Institute of science history and science and culture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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