Page 2 - Cognition and Thinking of the history of Science and Technology

Science and technology as part of culture

• Only as late as the middle of the

20 century the community of
th
scholars acknowledged that

science is an important part of
civilisation and therefore its
history was closely related to the

history of civilisation.

• The project “science AND
civilisation in China” of Joseph

Needham was a statement for the
relation between the two
concepts.

• At the same period, scholars

acknowledged that the history of
science and the history of

technology should be studied
together.

Joseph Needham