(精选)中西文明选读(英文版)第7章 Science and Technology课件.pptVIP

Chapter Seven Science and Technology 【7.1 Science and Technology in China】 【中国的科技】 China was a world leader in science and technology until the early years of the Qing Dynasty. Chinese discoveries and Chinese innovations such as paper making, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventions) contributed to the economic development in Asia and Europe. Chinese activity started to decrease in the fourteenth century. Unlike in Europe scientists did not attempt to reduce observations of nature to mathematical laws and they did not form a scholarly community with criticis