The First Half-Life of Joseph Needham Lu Gwei-Djen (England) 1
Ⅰ Joseph Needham(Senior)in British Red Cross Society uniform as consultant anaesthetist,ca.1916 Ⅱ Alicia Adelaide Montgomery Needham(mother),ca.1902 Ⅲ Joseph Needham,ca.1902 Ⅳ Joseph Needham,ca.1903 between pages 8
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Ⅴ Joseph Needham and Dorothy Moyle Needham(wife)outside Cambridge Biochemical Laboratory,ca.1928-9 Ⅵ-Ⅷ Joseph Needham in the laboratory(1),(2),(3),1935 between pages 24
Ⅸ Joseph Needham with Lu Gwei-Djen(鲁桂珍)at Vinci,Italy,1965 facing Page 36
Ⅹ Joseph Needham with Kuo Mo-Jo(郭沫若)in Peking,1972 facing Page 37
Peregrinations with Joseph Needham in China,1943-44 Huang Hsing-Tsung(U.S.A) 39
Ⅺ Joseph Needham as Scientific Counsellor,British Embassy,and Director,Sino-British Science Cooperation Office,Chungking(重庆),1943 facing Page 40
Ⅻ Joseph Needam in Chengtu,Szechuan(四川成都)with Ho Wen-Chun (何文俊,agriculturist),Pheng Yun-Hua(彭蕴华,Ho s wife),and Lo Chung-Shu(罗忠恕,philosopher),1942 facing Page 41
ⅩⅢ Joseph Needham with Wang Chia-Chhi(王家楫,third from the right)at the meeting of Chinese Chemical Society,Beipei,Szechuan(四川北碚),1943 facing Page 44
ⅩⅣ Joseph Needham(fourth from the left)and Sir Frederick Eggleston(Australian Ambassador,third from the right)visiting a power alcohol factory in Szechuan;the manager,Chang Chi-Hsi(张季熙),is between the two visitors,1942 facing Page 45
ⅩⅤ Huang Hsing-Tsung(黄兴宗);at Kuangyuan,Szechuan(四川广元),1943 facing Page 52
ⅩⅥ Kuang Wei(广威,driver)and Lao Yu (老于,mechanic),at Tunhuang,Kansu(甘肃敦煌),1943 facing Page 53
ⅩⅦ Joseph Needham in Chinese uniform,1945-6 facing Page 74
ⅩⅧ Joseph Needham in Chinese dress,1945-6 facing Page 75
From Pao-pu-tse to Mawangtui Cao Tianqin(China) 77
Why the Scientific Revolution did not Take Place in China-or didn t It? N.Siyin(U.S.A) 89
The Historian and the Experimentalist Anthony R.Butler(Scotland) 107
Administrative Statistics in Ming T ai-tsung Shih-lu-An Illustration of Chinese Bureaucratism as Criticized by Dr.Needham Ray Huang (U.S.A) 115
The Observational Date of the Shih-shih Hsing-ching Kiyosi Yabuuti(Japan) 133
Another Manuscript Star-map from Dunhuang-The Dunhuang Star-map B Xia Nai(China) 143
ⅩⅨ Dunhuang Star-map B facing Page 146
ⅩⅩ Dunhuang Star-map A facing Page 147
Variation of Tropical Year Length in Far Eastern Astronomy and Its Observational Basis Shigeru Nakayama(Japan) 155
On the Role of Hsu Kuang-ch I at the Ch ung-ch eng Calendrical Reform Project Keizo Hashimoto(Japan) 185
Mathematical Manuscripts from the Tunhuang Caves U.J.Libbrecht(Belgium) 203
Chinese Polynomial Equations in the 13th Century Lam Lay Yong(Singapore) 231
The Areas Covered by Wu Zang Shan Jing Tan Qixiang(China) 273
The First Printed Chinese Rutter-Duhai Fangcheng Tian Rukang(China) 301
Study on the Periods during which Alchemical Canons and Methods or Books(of Taoistic Patrology)Appeared Chen Guofu(China) 309
On the Zaohua zhinan Ho Peng Yoke(Australia) 357
The Silk-Workshops of the Shang Dynasty(16th-11th Century B.C.) Dieter Kuhn(England) 367
Siege Engines and Late Zhou Military Technology Robin D.S.Yates(U.S.A.) 409
Chinese Mining:Where Was the gunpowder? Peter J.Golas(U.S.A.) 453
Why Paper and Printing were Invented First in China and Used Later in Europe Tsuen-hsuin Tsien(U.S.A.) 459
Form and Function in the Evolution of the Wooden Wheel Andre Wegener Sleeswyk(The Netherlands) 471
On the Chinese Arch Bridges Li Guohao(China) 505
On Ancient Chinese Zootaxonomy Zou Shuwen(China) 511
The Four Sacred Animals Zhang Mengwen(China) 525
ⅩⅪ Agkistrodon acutus(Guenther) facing Page 528
ⅩⅫ Pavo muticus imperator(Delacour) facing Page 529
The Difficult Task of Blending Chinese and Western Science:The Case of Modern Interpretations of Traditional Chinese Medicine Manfred Porkert(Germany) 553
The Conceptual History of Psychiatric Terms in Traditional Chinese Medicine Hans Agren(Sweden) 573
Hung-ch ien,Red Lead,an Elixir of Life in the Ming Dynasty Miyasita Saburo(Japan) 583
The Chinese Contribution to Europe s Agricultural Revolution:A Technology Transformed Francesca Bray(England) 597
Agricultural Production and Agrotechnique of the Zhou Dynasty as Reflected in The Book of Songs Xia Weiying Fan Chuyu(China) 639
The Spread of Rice Cultivation and Rice Technology into the Hebei Region in the Ming and Qing Timothy Brook(Canada) 659
A Korean Collection of Agronomic Writings in Chinese Hu Daojing(China) 691
Bibliographies of Works by Joseph Needham 703
Index 721