Joseph Needham's Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology

doi:10.1353/tech.2019.0041

	Joseph Needham's Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology
	Zhang Baichun; Tian Miao
刊名	TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE
	2019-04-01
卷号	60 期号:2 页码:616-624
ISSN号	0040-165X
DOI	10.1353/tech.2019.0041
通讯作者	Zhang Baichun()
英文摘要	Using cross-cultural comparison, Joseph Needham composed a "connected history" of Chinese science and technology in global context, so that his Science and Civilisation in China (SCC) offered a refreshing view of science and technology to readers. In the SCC's subvolume on mechanical engineering (vol. 4, part 2), for example, the authors identified many inventions in premodern China, including the efficient harness, the gimbal, and the waterwheel linkwork escapement. Needham further tried to verify the possible origin and transregional dissemination (including stimulus diffusion) of such inventions as the astronomical clockwork and the interconversion of rotary and rectilinear motion in Eurasia. Although it was difficult to make satisfying arguments about the impact of Chinese knowledge on any European invention, Needham's methodologies, and even his enlightening speculations, are of real significance for present and future scholarship.
WOS研究方向	History & Philosophy of Science
语种	英语
出版者	JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000471769800015
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ihns.ac.cn/handle/311051/7462]
专题	中国科学院自然科学史研究所
通讯作者	Zhang Baichun
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hist Nat Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang Baichun,Tian Miao. Joseph Needham's Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology[J]. TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE,2019,60(2):616-624.
APA	Zhang Baichun,&Tian Miao.(2019).Joseph Needham's Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology.TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE,60(2),616-624.
MLA	Zhang Baichun,et al."Joseph Needham's Research on Chinese Machines in the Cross-Cultural History of Science and Technology".TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE 60.2(2019):616-624.