The Japanese and Western science / with a foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer and a new epilogue by the author
1990, 1st edition. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391912
ISBN: 0812282523
Physical description: xiv, 141 p. : ill., facsims., ports. ; 24 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p[133]-135. Translation of: Nihonjin to kindai kagaku. - Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten, 1976. Contents: From Samurai to scientist : Yamagawa Kenjir -- Japan studies of foreign teachers in Japan : investigations of the magic mirror -- Theory of varying coefficients of reflections / Robert William Atkinson -- Theory of varying curvature due to the Megeb / William Edward Ayrton, John Perry -- Theory of variation in curvature due to thermal stress / Gustave E. Berson -- Magic-mirror studies by Japanese scientists -- Echo in America : the student annual The makio -- Magic mirror in subsequent years -- Zoologist fascinated by Japan : Edward Sylvester Morse -- Response to a new scientific theory : Darwinism in the early Meiji era -- Biology and the Buddhistic view of the transience of life : Oka Asajir -- Modern science and the Japanese conception of nature : a sketch. Subjects: Science Japan History; Science Philosophy History; Evolution Philosophy History.
Price: €75.00