| Chinese Science and Culture |
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| "Chinese Science and Culture" was a
sketch of a global history of science and technology which emphasized
China as the source of many of the prerequisite technologies of
modernity-- printing, the compass, gunpowder, cast iron, and so on-- and
discussed the historical and intellectual contexts of Chinese empirical
and theoretical knowledge of the physical world. It was basically an
effort to dismantle the assumption that there is something essentially
"Western" about science and technology.
A common stereotype is that the Chinese traditionally lack scientific and technological ability, although, somehow, they stumbled upon paper making, printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's compass. Modern Chinese, themselves, sometimes are surprised to realize that modern agriculture, shipping, astronomical observatories, decimal mathematics, paper money, umbrellas, wheelbarrows, multi-stage rockets, brandy and whiskey, the game of chess, and much more, all came from China The sciences of astronomy, physics, chemistry,
meteorology, seismology,technology, engineering, and mathematics can
trace their early origins to China. From 600 AD until 1500 AD, China was
the world's most technologically Advanced society. |
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