Nathan Sivin

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Nathan Sivin is affiliated with the following schools: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University

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According to Wikipedia, Nathan Sivin , also known as Xiwen , was an American sinologist, historian, essayist, educator, and writer. He taught first at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, then at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement in 2006.

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Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China (1987) (156)
Why the scientific revolution did not take place in China — or did it? (1985) (106)
On the Word "Taoist" as a Source of Perplexity. With Special Reference to the Relations of Science and Religion in Traditional China (1978) (85)
Cosmos and Computation in Early Chinese Mathematical Astronomy (1969) (81)
State, cosmos, and body in the last three centuries B.C. (1995) (80)
The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece (2002) (72)
Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections (1996) (56)
Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century. The Shu-shu Chiu-chang of Ch`in Chiu-shao.@@@Chinese Science, Explorations of an Ancient Tradition. (1975) (47)
Science and Medicine in Imperial China—The State of the Field (1988) (46)
Traditional medicine in contemporary China : a partial translation of Revised outline of Chinese medicine (1972) : with an introductory study on change in present day and early medicine (1987) (44)
Chinese Alchemy: Preliminary Studies (1968) (42)
Science in Ancient China: Researches and Reflections (1995) (39)
Ancient china. (1966) (38)
Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions: Text and experience in classical Chinese medicine (1995) (38)
Chinese Science: Explorations of an Ancient Tradition (1973) (38)
T'ien-Kung K'ai-Wu. Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century. Sung Ying-hsing , E-tu Zen Sun, Shiou-chuan Sun (1966) (38)
Granting the seasons: The Chinese astronomical reform of 1280, with a study of its many dimensions and a translation of its records / Nathan Sivin (2008) (32)
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 6, Medicine (2000) (22)
Science and Technology in East Asia (1978) (21)
Chinese Alchemy and the Manipulation of Time (1976) (19)
Health Care in Eleventh-Century China (2015) (16)
Spagyrical discovery and invention : apparatus, theories and gifts (1985) (15)
Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Research and Education (1988) (11)
Old and New Daoisms (2010) (10)
Essential subtleties on the silver sea : the Yin-hai jing-wei : a Chinese classic on ophthalmology (2001) (10)
Granting the Seasons (2009) (9)
Christoph Harbsmeier, Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1: Language and Logic in Traditional China (2000) (8)
The Footnote: A Curious History (review) (2000) (8)
The Contemporary Atlas of China (1989) (8)
The History of Chinese Medicine: Now and Anon (1998) (7)
DRAWING INSIGHTS FROM CHINESE MEDICINE (2007) (7)
Dragons and Toads: The Chinese Seismoscope of A.D. 132 (1983) (6)
Further Comments on the Use of Statistics in the Study of Han Dynasty Portents (1977) (6)
A cornucopia of reference works for the history of Chinese medicine. (1989) (6)
Imperial China: Has Its Present Past a Future? (1978) (6)
Ruminations on the Tao and Its Disputers (1992) (6)
William Lewis (1708-1781) as a Chemist (1962) (5)
Chinese Mathematics. A Concise History . By Li Yan and Du Shiran. Translated by John N. Crossley and Anthony W.-C. Lun.[Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. 290 pp.] - Histoire des Mathématiques Chinoises . By Jean-Claude Martzloff. [Paris: Masson, 1988. 375 pp.] (1989) (5)
Chinese archaeoastronomy: between two worlds. (1989) (5)
John Fryer. The Introduction of Western Science and Technology into Nineteenth-Century China. Adrian Arthur Bennett (1970) (5)
Chen Meidong 陳美东, Gu li xin tan 古历新探 (New Investigations of Ancient Astronomy) and Chen Meidong 陳美东, Zhongguo kexue jishu shi. Tianwenxue juan 中国科学技术史。天文学卷 (History of Chinese Science and Technology. Astronomy) (2004) (4)
Chū-Ni dai jiten (Unabridged Chinese-Japanese Dictionary). Aichi Daigaku Chū-Ni dai jiten HensanshoA New Practical Chinese-English Dictionary. Liang Shih-ch'iuLin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. (1976) (4)
Cambridge Texts in the History of Chinese Science on Microfiche. (1980) (4)
Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 7, The Social Background. Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections (review) (2006) (4)
A Multi-dimensional Approach to Research on Ancient Science (2005) (4)
A study and critique of the teaching of the history of science and technology. Interim report by the committee on undergraduate education of the history of science society (U.S.A.) (1975) (4)
On the Pao p'u tzu nei p'ien and the Life of Ko Hung (283-343) (1969) (4)
Science and Civilisation in China (1968) (4)
On "China's Opposition to Western Science during Late Ming and Early Ch'ing" (1965) (4)
Introduction to East Asian Cartography (2011) (3)
Éloge: Giorgio Diaz de Santillana, 1902-1974 (1976) (3)
A Chinese Classic (1966) (3)
Raising Questions (1990) (3)
Max Weber, Joseph Needham, Benjamin Nelson: The Question of Chinese Science (1985) (3)
A Historical Catalogue of Scientists and Scientific Books: From the Earliest Times to the Close of the Nineteenth Century. Robert Mortimer Gascoigne (1986) (3)
53. Sun Simiao on Medical Ethics: "The Perfect Integrity of the Great Physician" from Prescriptions Worth a Thousand in Gold (2017) (3)
The Way and the Word (2017) (2)
Hsi-fang Li-suan-hsueh chih Shu-ju (The Introduction of Western Astronomical and Mathematical Sciences into China). By Wang P'ing. Monograph No. 17 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 1966. 251 pp. Index. $1.00 (cloth) 0.80 (paper). (1970) (2)
The Annals of Lu Buwei: A Complete Translation and Study (review) (2001) (2)
Traditional Chinese medicine and the United States: past, present, and future. (1986) (2)
On some dimensions of theZhongyong (2004) (2)
Recent Publications on Shen Kuo’s Mengxi bitan (Brush Talks from Dream Brook) (2016) (2)
A Seventh-Century Chinese medical case history. (1967) (2)
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China. By David A. Palmer (New York: Columbia University Press. xii plus 356 pp. $34.00) (2009) (2)
The Book of Change (1966) (2)
Book Review:Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine Ilza Veith (1968) (2)
The Question of Efficacy (2015) (2)
Reflections on the siutation in the People's Republic of China, 1987 (1990) (2)
Social Relations of Curing in Traditional China--Preliminary Considerations (1977) (2)
Over the borders: technical history, philosophy, and the social sciences. (1991) (2)
Graphics and Text in the Production of Technical Knowledge in China: The Warp and the Weft (review) (2010) (1)
Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China (review) (2009) (1)
Science and Civilisation in China. Vol. 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part III. Agro-Industries and Forestry. Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology . By Christian Daniels. Forestry. By Nicholas K. Menzies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxvii, 740 pp. $150.00. (1998) (1)
Sino-Science Sources (1973) (1)
La tradition scientifique chinoise. Joseph Needham (1979) (1)
What Kinds of Comparison Are Most Useful in the Study of World Philosophies (2018) (1)
Book Review: Chinese Astronomy: Sternkunde und Weltbild im alten China. Gesammelte Aufsätze (1977) (1)
The Needham Question (2013) (1)
Discovery of Spagyrical Invention (1981) (1)
Eighty-Fifth Critical Bibliography of the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (To 1 January 1960) (1960) (1)
Chinese Astronomy in History (2000) (1)
Translating Science (2002) (1)
A Biographical Dictionary of the Qin, Former Han and Xin Periods (221 B.C. - A.D. 24) (review) (2001) (1)
Current research on the history of science in the People's Republic of China. (1978) (1)
Directory of scholars working outside of East Asia in the fields of traditional Chinese science, technology, and medicine (1975) (1)
The Roanoke Conference II. Concluding Remarks on Conference (1980) (1)
Chinese cosmology (1976) (1)
A Supplementary Bibliography of Traditional Chinese Science: Introductory Books and Articles in Western Languages (1986) (1)
A New View of the Huainanzi (2014) (1)
Chinese technical endeavour (1978) (1)
Astral Sciences in Early Imperial China: Observation, Sagehood and the Individual by Daniel Patrick Morgan (2020) (1)
Works Received (1971) (1)
Chinese science : an informal and irregular bulletin dedicated to the study of traditional Chinese science, technology, and medicine (1975) (1)
Editors’ Note (2014) (0)
Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 11, “Ferrous Metallurgy.” (review) (2011) (0)
Book Review:Ch'i. A Neo-Taoist Approach to Life. R. G. H. Siu (1975) (0)
Appendix G. Notes on the Identification of Substances Mentioned in Tan ching yao chueh (1968) (0)
II. Tan Chìng Yao Chueh: The Tradition and the Book (1968) (0)
The Grand Titration. By Joseph Needham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970. 331 pp. Index. $11.50. (1971) (0)
Chûgoku no kagaku (Chinese Science). Yabuuchi Kiyoshi (1977) (0)
"Chinese science. Exploration of an ancient tradition", Shigeru Nakayama, Nathan Sivin, Cambridge-Massachusetts-London 1973 : [recenzja] / Tadeusz Nadel-Turoński. (1976) (0)
Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West. Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology. Joseph Needham (1973) (0)
Book Review:The Essential Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine Liu Yanchi, Fang Tingyu, Chen Laidi (1988) (0)
Pacing the Void. T'ang Approaches to The Stars %a Edward H. Schafer (1979) (0)
Errata: The Bellagio Conference on Taoist Studies (1973) (0)
Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China by Fang Xiaoping (review) (2015) (0)
Carla Nappi. The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2009. Pp. xii, 234. $39.95 (2010) (0)
translator and A Complete Translation, from the Asian Classics), (2020) (0)
American Science and Modern China 1876–1936 . By Peter Buck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. ix, 283 pp. Maps, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $24.95. (1981) (0)
III. The Biography of Sun Ssu-mo: A Historiographie Inquiry (1968) (0)
[Directory of historians of Chinese science]. (1975) (0)
Michel Strickmann, Chinese Magical Medicine, ed. Bernard Faure (2007) (0)
Comment on McClain's theory of an ancient Chinese ‘second’ (1988) (0)
Therapy in Popular Religion (2015) (0)
Chinese plants rediscovered (2017) (0)
Shen Gua's Empiricism by Ya Zuo (2022) (0)
Appendix J. Published Translations of Chinese Alchemical Treatises (1968) (0)
Appendix C. Comparison of Elixir Names in Sun Ssu-mo’s Lists with Those in Other Sources (1968) (0)
Book Review:Chugoku igakushi kogi (Lectures on the History of Chinese Medicine) Peking College of Chinese Medicine, Natsu Saburo (1976) (0)
The History of Imperial China. A Research Guide . By Endymion Wilkinson. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 49. Cambridge, Mass.: East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, 1974. xxi, 213 pp. $6.00 (paper). (1975) (0)
Reference Books for the History of Medicine by Ma Chi-hsing and Others (1991) (0)
Book Review:Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa Lu Gwei-Djen, Joseph Needham (1982) (0)
Fifth International Conference on the History of Science in China (1989) (0)
China Illustrata Nova: Sino-Western Relations, Conceptions of China, Cultural Influences and the Development of Sinology Disclosed in Western Printed Books 1477-1877 (review) (2010) (0)
Reflections on the Batesian synthesis. (2009) (0)
Appendix A. Medical Case History of Sun Ssu-mo (1968) (0)
Technology and Culture in Chinese History: An Introduction (2020) (0)
On the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1989) (0)
Volker Scheid, Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (2009) (0)
Clark, David H.; F. Richard Stephenson. The Historical Supernovae (Pergamon International Library of Science, Technology, Engineering and Social Studies). x + 233 pp., bibliography, index. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1977. (1980) (0)
Book Review: The New Delhi Colloquium, History of Oriental Astronomy (1989) (0)
Why Study Asian Medicine? (2021) (0)
Chu K'o-chen, Chu K'o-chen wen chi 竺可楨文集 (1980) (0)
Book Review: A Jesuit Astronomer's Report from China: Ferdinand Verbiest, S.J. (1623–1688) and the Chinese Heaven: The Composition of the Astronomical Corpus, its Diffusion and Reception in the European Republic of Letters (2005) (0)
On the Dates of Yang Shang-shan and the Huang-ti nei ching tai su (1998) (0)
3. Exploiting Medicinal Plants: Why Do It the Hard Way? (1998) (0)
Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History by ed. T. J. Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes (review) (2014) (0)
IV. Tan Ching Yao Chueh: Annotated Translation (1968) (0)
Appendix H. Notes on the Identification of Medical Disorders Mentioned in Tan ching yao chueh (1968) (0)
Shen Gua's Empiricism by Ya Zuo (review) (2023) (0)
David H. Clark and F. Richard Stephenson, The Historical Supernova (1980) (0)
Chung-kuo shihyu kung-yeh fa-chan shih. Volume I: Ku-tai te shih-yu yu t'ien-jan-ch'i. (A History of the Development of the Chinese Petroleum Industry. Volume I: Petroleum and Natural Gas in Ancient Times.). Shen Li-sheng (1982) (0)
Some Definitions and Viewpoints (2015) (0)
Bamboo Stone: The Evolution of a Chinese Medical Elite.Karen Minden (1996) (0)
Appendix F. Sources for the Life and Legend of Sun Ssu-mo (1968) (0)
Conference Reports (1980) (0)
Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Research and Education. Science, Medicine, and Technology in East Asia 3. (1990) (0)
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (review) (2009) (0)
Ian Johnston, translator and annotator, The Mozi: A Complete Translation (2012) (0)
Health Care, Medicine, and Chinese Society (2015) (0)
Book reviews (1992) (0)
Appendix D. Directions for Preparing the Reaction Vessel and Lute as given in Ch’ien chin fang (1968) (0)
Science and Technology in the Development of Modern China: An Annotated Bibliography@@@Bibliography on Technology and Social Change in China and Japan (1975) (0)
A directory of scholars in East Asia engaged in research on traditional Chinese science. (1983) (0)
Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (review) (2001) (0)
Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others (2018) (0)
Reflections on ‘Nature on Trial’ (1984) (0)
Book Review: Computing Ephemerides in China: Le Calendrier Chinois: Structure et Calculs (104 av. J.-C.-1644) (2010) (0)
Demystifying Mentalities . By G. E. R. Lloyd. Themes in the Social Sciences, 20. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. viii, 174 pp. (1991) (0)
The Art of Medicine in Early China. The Ancient and Medieval Origins of a Modern Archive. By Miranda Brown. pp. xv, 237. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2015. (2016) (0)
Changing Perspectives in the History of Science. Essays in Honour of Joseph Needham. Mikulas Teich , Robert Young (1976) (0)
Science and technology after Mao. (1992) (0)
Ho Peng Yoke: A Personal Introduction (2005) (0)
Appendix E. Table of Dates Concerned with the Life of Sun Ssu-mo (1968) (0)
Therapy in Elite Religions (2015) (0)
A Soup for the "Qan": Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era as Seen in Hu Szu-Hui's "Yin-Shan Cheng-Yao." (review) (2001) (0)
Book Review: Ferdinand Verbiest, S. J. (1623-1688) and the Chinese Heaven: the Composition of the Astronomical Corpus, its Diffusion and Reception in the European Republic of Letters / Leuven University Press, 2003 (2005) (0)
Seiyu roku: On Oil Manufacturing (1977) (0)
Book Review: A Chinese Text Analysed: Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient China: The Zhou bi Suanjing (1998) (0)
Three Poems on Ageing (2012) (0)
Divination and Prediction in Early China and Ancient Greece . By Lisa Raphals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xxvii, 470 pp. ISBN 9781107287624 (cloth; also available as e-book). (2016) (0)
The Question of Efficacy in the History of Medicine (2011) (0)
V. Tan Ching Yao Chueh: Critical Edition of the Text (1968) (0)
I. On the Reconstruction of Ancient Chinese Alchemy (1968) (0)
Appendix I. On Understanding the Language of Early Chinese Chemistry and Pathology: A Bibliographical Essay (1968) (0)
Chinese plants rediscovered (2017) (0)
Cheng-Yih Chen (ed.), Science and Technology in Chinese Civilization (1989) (0)
Medieval Chinese Medicine: The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts (2006) (0)
Two new Chinese journals: Ziran kexueshi yanjiu 自然科學史研究 (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences) and Zhongguo kejji shiliao 中国科技史料 (China Historical Materials of Science and Technology) (1982) (0)
Medicine in Rural China: A Personal Account.@@@Science and Medicine in Twentieth-Century China: Research and Education. (1990) (0)
Therapy in the State Religion (2015) (0)
Appendix B. “Apothecaries’ Measure” in the T’ang Period (1968) (0)

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