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Preface The present issue, the eighth volume of Ming Qing yanjiu, includes six articles, of which four by Chinese scholars, a review and a conference report. The first article, Chang Hao's "One Chinese Character for One Chemical Element: The Earliest Efforts" concerns the early attempts to "sinicise" the chemical elements. The author obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry at Tamkang University and Master of Science in physics at the same university in Taiwan. He has been pursuing a Ph.D. since 1994 at the Institute for Philosophy, Theory of Science, History of Science and History of Technology at the Technische UniversiW Berlin One of the most important rules of translation for chemical elements is that each element is represented by one Chinese character with a radical which indicates the physical properties according to the Chinese philosophy of nature. Such an invented single character already appeared in Ge wu ru men m 4"o/J A r~ (Natural Philosophy) and was developed by Kerr and He Liaoran fill pg ~ , Fryer and Xu Shou f!., and Billequin and Lian Zizhen ~~ -=f ~. The KerrlHe's list is made up of characters of traditional Chinese chemical terms and invented ones. 11le list later http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ming Qing Yanjiu Brill

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Santangelo, Paolo
Ming Qing Yanjiu , Volume 8 (1): 5 – Jan 30, 1999
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The present issue, the eighth volume of Ming Qing yanjiu, includes six articles, of which four by Chinese scholars, a review and a conference report. The first article, Chang Hao's "One Chinese Character for One Chemical Element: The Earliest Efforts" concerns the early attempts to "sinicise" the chemical elements. The author obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry at Tamkang University and Master of Science in physics at the same university in Taiwan. He has been pursuing a Ph.D. since 1994 at the Institute for Philosophy, Theory of Science, History of Science and History of Technology at the Technische UniversiW Berlin One of the most important rules of translation for chemical elements is that each element is represented by one Chinese character with a radical which indicates the physical properties according to the Chinese philosophy of nature. Such an invented single character already appeared in Ge wu ru men m 4"o/J A r~ (Natural Philosophy) and was developed by Kerr and He Liaoran fill pg ~ , Fryer and Xu Shou f!., and Billequin and Lian Zizhen ~~ -=f ~. The KerrlHe's list is made up of characters of traditional Chinese chemical terms and invented ones. 11le list later

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