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Shen Gua's Empiricism /

"Describes the life of Shen Gua, a distinguished renaissance man in China whose writing included remarkable "scientific" discoveries. Reveals the connection between Shen's life as an active statesman and his empirical inquiries, and provides insights into the dynamics between sci...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Zuo, Ya, 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Peripateting the world (1051-1063)
  • Envisioning learning
  • Measuring the world (1063-1075)
  • Individuating things
  • Reforming the world (1071-1075)
  • Buffeted by the world (1075-1085)
  • In the system (and then out)
  • Brushtalking the world (1085-1095)
  • Building a non-system
  • Farewell to system
  • Reverberating in the world (1100-1800).