Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, the Social Background, Part 1, Language and Logic in Traditional China

by Christoph Harbsmeier and Joseph Needham

Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 7 Part 1 is the first book in the final volume of this unique resource. The Chinese culture is the only culture in the world that has developed systematic logical definitions and reflections on its own and on the basis of a non-Indo-European language. Christoph Harbsmeier discusses the basic features of the classical Chinese language that made it a suitable medium for science in ancient China, discussing in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052157143X
• ISBN13: 9780521571432
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.7" x 10.0"