Science and Culture in Traditional Japan (A.D. 600-1854)

by Masayoshi Sugimoto and David L. Swain

Understanding the processes by which science enters and transforms a society has never been a simple task, and it is to the credit of authors Sugimoto and Swain that Science and Culture in Traditional Japan (A.D. 600-1854)makes this process understandable to general readers as well as specialists. Deliberately eschewing a merely scientific or technological focus, the two authors have undertaken to show the development of premodern science in Japan...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262191555
• ISBN13: 9780262191555
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 498 Pages