Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
About Joseph Needham
Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China. A focus of his was what has come to be called the Needham Question of why and how China had ceded its leadership in science and technology to Western countries.
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Although there is a very large literature, still growing almost daily, on the Chinese calendar, its interest is, we suggest, much more archaeological and historical than scientific.
British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900-1995)
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900-1995)
Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.
British biochemist, historian and sinologist (1900-1995)