Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
“The” Athenaeum
Author: The Spirit of the English Magazines
Author: Chats on Oriental China
Author: J. f. BlackerPublisher: Velikovsky Press
ISBN: 1443756784
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Ceramic Art
Author: Jennie J. YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Porcelain
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The City of Blue and White
Author: Anne GerritsenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499953
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
A compelling examination of the ultimate global commodity, blue and white porcelain, from kiln to consumers across the globe.
On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. ElmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.