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Characteristics of China's Traditional Scientific Thought

Medical science

1 Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period: Bian Que, Four Diagnoses.

Qin and Han dynasties: (Huangdi Neijing) laid the medical theory, (Shennong Herbal Classic) was China's first pharmacological work, Ma Feisan was invented by Hua Tuo in surgery, and Zhang Zhongjing (Treatise on Febrile Diseases).

Sui and Tang Dynasties: Tubo Yuan Dan Gong Bu (four medical codes), Tang Gaozong organized and promulgated (Tang Herbal Medicine), which was the best in the world, and Sun Simiao, the drug king, summarized the achievements of the previous generation (Qian Jinfang).

4 Ming and Qing Dynasties: Li Shizhen's (Compendium of Materia Medica)

astronomy

1 Spring and Autumn Period: Halley's Comet was recorded for the first time in the world, more than 600 years earlier than in Europe. China's calendar forms its own fixed system. It runs on 19 7, which is 160 years earlier than that in the west. Astronomical works in the Warring States Period (Shi Gan Xing Jing) are the earliest astronomical works.

Qin and Han Dynasties: During the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, taichu calendar compiled by Sima Qian was in Chinese.

China's first complete almanac. The sunspot record is recognized as the earliest one in the world. Zhang Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty made the earliest scientific explanation of the eclipse from different positions of the sun, the moon and the earth. The invented seismograph can measure the direction of earthquake release thousands of miles away, which is earlier than that made in Europe 1700 years ago.

3 Sui and Tang Dynasties: The monk and his entourage wrote (Da) and were the first people to measure the prime meridian.

Song and Yuan Dynasties: In the early Yuan Dynasty, Guo Shoujing made measuring instruments and altimeters, and organized astronomical surveys. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shen Kuo formulated the Twelve Qi Calendars, and in the early Yuan Dynasty, Taishi Bureau was established.

mathematics

1 applied works of the western Han dynasty (nine chapters on arithmetic)

Liu Hui in Wei and Jin Dynasties used limit value theory to make pi.

In the southern dynasties, Zu Chongzhi used the pi of 3.1415926-3.1415927, which was many years earlier than that in the west.

geography

Pei Xiu in Western Jin Dynasty (map of high arch area), painting method.

2 Northern Wei Li Daoyuan (Zhu)

3 Xu Xiake in Ming Dynasty (Xu Xiake's Travel Notes)

physics

(Mo Jing) During the Warring States Period.

Agricultural handicraft industry

1 Warring States: (exam notes)

Jia Sixie in the Northern Dynasties (Qi Yao Minshu)

The Ming Dynasty (Heavenly Creations) belonged to foreign technology, and the technology of Xu Guangqi (Agricultural Encyclopedia) was European water conservancy.

Meng Qian Bi Tan written by Shen Kuo in Northern Song Dynasty is a milestone of science and technology.

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