Stone and bone needles found in ancient tombs have made Joseph Needham speculate that acupuncture might have originated in the Shang dynasty.

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Joseph Needham suggests that the proto-shells described in the Huolongjing may be among the first of their kind.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

This analogy with a curved egg led some modern historians, notably Joseph Needham, to conjecture that Chinese astronomers were, after all, aware of the Earth's sphericity.

This passage-others from the Mojing-were only given serious attention by modern scholarship after the work of Joseph Needham in 1962.

The British historian Joseph Needham and the American historian Robert Temple write that the practice of inoculation for smallpox began in China during the 10th century.

However, the sinologist Joseph Needham states that this information comes from the Zhongdou xinfa ( 種痘心法 ) written in 1808 by Zhu Yiliang, centuries after the alleged events.

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Historians such as Joseph Needham have seen this group as developing a precursor philosophy of science that was never fully developed, but others believe that recognizing the Logicians as proto-scientists reveals too much of a modern bias.

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Final Option, was started in 1986 by frontman, Panzer Vortex when he was still a sophomore at Needham Broughton High School.

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The significance of this was phenomenal, as it allowed the new Guanxian irrigation system to populate an area of some 40 by 50 miles ( 60 × 80 km ) with over five million people, still in use today ( Needham, Science and Civilization in China, Volume 4, Part 3, 288 ).

* Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering.

The Genius of China: 3, 000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention, 3rd edition, introduction by Joseph Needham.

Used for establishing the Summer and Winter Solstices, this astronomical instrument is described in detail by Joseph Needham in his seminal work Science and Civilisation in China.

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The noted English scholar Joseph Needham listed kites in his book History of Science and Technology in China as one of the important contributions in science and technology that Chinese introduced to Europe.

* Needham, Joseph, et al., Science and Civilisation in China: volume 5, Part 7: Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1986

With the Catalog opened flat, the reader might find the large page on the left full of text and intriguing illustrations from a volume of Joseph Needham ’ s Science and Civilization in China, showing and explaining an astronomical clock tower or a chain-pump windmill, while on the right-hand page are an excellent review of a beginners ' guide to modern technology ( The Way Things Work ) and a review of The Engineers ’ Illustrated Thesaurus.

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The institute is named after the scientist and historian Joseph Needham, who initiated the Science and Civilisation in China series.

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13, Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia.

Joseph Needham, in the general conclusions to his masterwork, the series Science and Civilisation in China, observed of the familiar tag, " It could mean that this man has only read one book, has only written one book, does not possess more than one book, or puts his faith in one book only.

He earned a Ph. D in history from the University of Michigan, worked with Joseph Needham and is a contributor of Needham's Science and Civilisation in China.

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In the realm of modern research, the late British biochemist and historian of Chinese science Joseph Needham ( 1900 – 1995 ) ( known as Li Yuese in China ) did extensive research and analysis of Su Song's texts and various achievements in his Science and Civilization in China book series.

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Joseph Needham was another scholar ( cited by McNeill 1963 ) who considered the relations and differences between West and East Eurasia, primarily in Science and Civilisation in China ( 1954 – 1995 ), and primarily regarding science and technology.

Volume 7, Part I of Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China.

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