Joseph Needham, in full Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (born Dec. 9, 1900, London, England died March 24 , 1995 Cambridge) English biochemist, embryologist, and historian of science who wrote and edited the landmark history Science and Civilisation in China, a comprehensive study of Chinese scientific development.
December 9, 1900 London, England March 24 , 1995Cambridge, England Joseph Needham, in full Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (born Dec. 9, 1900, London, England died March 24 , 1995 Cambridge) English biochemist, embryologist, and historian of science who wrote and edited the landmark history Science and Civilisation in China, a comprehensive study of Chinese scientific development.
Science and Civilisation in China surveys the history of Chinese chemistry, mechanics, navigation, medicine, and other disciplines.
Its contribution henceforth, the official said, should be "harmony".Work on "Science and Civilisation in China" has pressed on since Needham's death.
After serving as director of natural sciences for UNESCO (1946 48), he returned to Cambridge and began work on Science and Civilisation in China.
Needham, himself an eminent embryologist (Needham 1931 , 1934 was the primary author of the multi-volume ongoing Science and Civilisation in China (1954- ).
It's not the death of writing and literature and civilisation in general; instead, at long last, these things have reached their purest, perfected form.
Mayan cuisine was quite varied, although still similar to many of the other local cultures and civilisations in Meso America.
Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology have been named alongside nuclear war, ecological catastrophe and super-volcano eruptions as "risks that threaten human civilisation" in a report by the Global Challenges Foundation.
Miss La Trobe tries to stage the whole history of civilisation in a village pageant.
