Changing Perspectives in the History of Science. Essays in Honour of Joseph Needham.

Frontispiece, xxi, 490 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in worn dust jacket (but the front flap of the dust jacket is not price-clipped). This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. Contains 20 essays, and a Bibliography of Needham's writings. Introduction by Mikulas Teich and Robert Young; The making of an honorary Taoist by Henry Holorenshaw; Bronze technology in the east: a metallurgical study of early Thai bronzes, with some speculations on the cultural transmission of technology by Cyril Stanley Smith; The crank in Graeco-Roman antiquity by A. G. Drachmann; Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century science in India and some problems of comparative studies by A. Rahman; The inner elixir (Nei Tan);Chinese physiological alchemy by Lu Gwei-Djen; The medico-chemical world of the Paracelsians by Allen G. Debus; The spectre of Van Helmont and the idea of continuity in the history of chemistry by Walter Pagel; William Dell and the idea of university by Charles Webster; Reasons and evaluation in the history of science by Mary Hesse; Some evaluations of reason in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century natural philosophy by P.M. Rattansi; Explanation and gravity by Gerd Buchdahl; Tragedy in the history of science by Jerome R. Ravetz; Time and motion: reflections on the non-existence of time by Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli (translated by Thomas B. Settle); A note on Harvey's 'egg' as Pandora's 'box' by I. Bernard Cohen; The [Star of David], [pentacle], and [octogram], and other geometrical and scientific talismans and symbolisms by Derek J. de Solla Price; Botanical nomenclature and its translation by Andre Haudricourt (translated by M.J.S. Rudwick); The role of science in the industrial revolution: a study of Josiah Wedgwood as a scientist and industrial chemist by Neil McKendrick; Industrial revolution and the rise of the science of geology by Roy Porter; The historiographic and ideological contexts of the nineteenth-century debate on man's place in nature by Robert Young; From 'enchyme' to 'cyto-skeleton': the development of ideas on the chemical organization of living matter by Mikulas Teich. ISBN 0435549251.…