Chapter ID: CBB018356436

Physics Knowledge and Experiments in Ancient China (2021)

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Liu, Shuyong (Author)
Guan, Zengjian (Author)
Jiang, Xiaoyuan (Editor)


Springer
Pages: 277-359
Publication date: 2021
Language: English


In ancient China, there was no physics in the contemporary sense. However, in the long process of exploring nature, the ancients gradually developed some technologies related to physics today and did some distinctive experimental work, which promoted the development of related knowledge and deepened people’s understanding of nature. These technologies and experiments played different roles in the corresponding research fields of modern physics. This chapter presents a brief introduction based on the classification of modern physics research fields.

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Authors & Contributors
Peramatzis, Michail
Anders, John
Arata, Luigi
Argyrakis, Vaios
Banchetti-Robino, Marina Paola
Guicciardini, Niccolò
Journals
Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science
Almagest
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
History of Science
Kexue Jishu yu Bianzhengfa (Science, Technology, and Dialectics)
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Lexington Books
Oxford University Press
Science History Publications
St. John's College
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Physics
Natural philosophy
Experiments and experimentation
Philosophy of science
Philosophy
Aristotelianism
People
Aristotle
Newton, Isaac
Boyle, Robert
Heron of Alexandria; Hero of Alexandria
Hobbes, Thomas
Kant, Immanuel
Time Periods
Ancient
17th century
18th century
16th century
20th century
Medieval
Places
Greece
China
England
Great Britain
Europe
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