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Chinese Science and Medicine (10131 words) |
 | To sum up, the Chinese sciences were able to attain a high standard--at times the highest in the world--without the overarching structure of natural philosophy that subsumed science in Europe and without the naive claims to universal knowledge that modern positivists have sometimes attempted to read back into the Western tradition. |
| The sciences described will be those the Chinese defined by applying their concepts of order to various areas of experience--the sky for astronomy and astrology, the bodies of humans and animals for medicine, and so on. |
| As each of the qualitative sciences assumed its classical form, yin-yang and the five phases were given special definitions related to the subject matter of that field, and were supplemented with other technical conceptions to provide a language adequate for theory. |
| Cognitive Science (666 words) |
| In 1682 the scientist and inventor Robert Hooke read a lecture to the Royal Society of London, in which he described a mechanistic model of human memory. |
| Social science research and experimentation in Australian criminal proceedings: prejudicial pre-trial publicity and psychological research. |
| The role of handouts, note-taking and overhead transparencies in veterinary science lectures. |
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