The second volume of Dr Joseph Needham's great work Science and Civilisation in China is devoted to the history of scientific thought. Beginning with ancient times, it describes the Confucian milieu in which arose the organic naturalism of the great Taoist school, the scientific philosophy of the Mohists and Logicians, and the quantitative materialism of the Legalists. Thus we ...(展开全部)

Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in science and technology will stand as one of the great works of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both East and West and also by readers with wider and more general interests. The text, based on research of a high critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of illustrations and is imbued with a warm ap...(展开全部)

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 glossar...(展开全部)

本杰明·艾尔曼（Benjamin A. Elman）1946年出生。1968年获美国汉密尔顿学院学士学位，1980年获宾夕法尼亚大学东方学博士学位。1992-1997年任加州大学洛杉矶分校历史系学术副主席，1992-1999年任该校《中国科学》杂志编审，1997-1999年任该校中国研究中心主任。1999-2001年，艾尔曼作为梅隆访问教授在普林斯顿高等研究院从事传统中国文明研究。2002年，正式出任普林斯顿大学东亚系和历史系教授。他的教学和研究领域包括：中国思想与文化史，1000-1900年：中华帝国晚期科技史，1600-1930年；中日文化学术交流史，1600-1850年。艾尔曼教授著述颇丰，著作主要有：《从理学到朴学：中华帝国晚期的思想与社会变化面面观》（1984年第1版，2001年第2版）、《经学、政治和宗族：中华帝国晚期常州今文学派研究》（...(展开全部)

This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to exploring the history of modern science using national, transnational, and global frames of reference. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date nondisciplinary history of modern science currently available. Essays are grou...(展开全部)

瓦托夫斯基是当代著名的哲学家,1928年生于美国.自60年代以来,他开始担任美国波士顿大学教授兼哲学系主任.他和著名哲学家R.S.科恩合编的数十卷《波士顿科学哲学研究》文集收集了当代著名科学哲学家的大量重要论著，探讨了科学哲学中一系列重大问题，在国际哲学界有重大的影响。 作为一位自然科学与社会科学的哲学家，瓦托夫斯基所涉及的研究领域有：知觉、美学与创造性艺术的哲学，18世纪的法国哲学，19世纪的德国哲学以及当代的科学哲学，他不仅精通费尔巴哈、黑格尔与马克思的著作，也熟悉亨普尔、波普尔、拉卡托斯等人的工作。他还研究政治与道德哲学、医学方法与伦理的哲学等。他学识渊博，说理透彻。所以，他的长期合作者R.S.科恩称他为“一位哲学家的哲学家，但又是一位大众的哲学家。”他的主要著作，除了本书以外，还有论文集《模型——表象与科学的理解》（波士顿，1979年）等著作...(展开全部)

本杰明・史华兹（Ben jasmin l．Schwartz），生于1916年12月12日，卒于1999年11月14日。1960年起任哈佛大学教授，并以其博雅和睿智，在该校东亚中心被尊称为“学者的学者”。除了作为其扛鼎之作的本书，还写有《中国的共产主义和毛的兴起》（1951年）、《寻求富强：严复和西方》（1964年）、《共产主义和中国：变动中的思想意识》（1968年）、《中国文化的价值》（1985年）和《中国及其他》（199年）等。

The center of this prodigious work of scholarship is a fresh examination of the range of Chinese culture thought during the formative period of Chinese culture. Benjamin Schwartz looks at the surviving texts of this period with a particular focus on the range of diversity to be found in them. While emphasizing the problematic and complex nature of this thought he also considers...(展开全部)

David Martin Jones examines how China has been portrayed in European and subsequently North American social and political thought and what, if anything, this depiction tells us about the character of this thought. Such a question immediately evokes the spectre of orientalism and subsequent chapters explore whether the identification of an orientalist project invalidates the kno...(展开全部)

In An Intellectual History of China, Professor Ge Zhaoguang presents a history of traditional Chinese knowledge, thought and belief to the late six century CE with a new approach offering a new perspective. It appropriates a wide range of source materials and emphasizes the necessity of understanding ideas and thought in their proper historical contexts. Its analytical narrativ...(展开全部)