The Japanese and Western science / Masao Watanabe ; translated by Otto Theodor Benfey ; with a foreword by Edwin O. Reischauer and a new epilogue by the author.

  • Watanabe, Masao, 1920-
Date:
1990
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Nihonjin to kindai kagaku. English

Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

Physical description

xiv, 141 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes

Translation of: Nihonjin to kindai kagaku
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. [133]-135) and index

Contents

Partial contents: From Samurai to scientist : Yamagawa Kenjirō -- 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 Megebō / 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 Asajirō -- Modern science and the Japanese conception of nature : a sketch.

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    History of Medicine
    AB.26.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 0812282523