Download or read book Concepts of Nature written by Hans Ulrich Vogel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collective masterpiece that illuminates premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with Europe’s, thus also reshaping our understanding of the corresponding Western concepts, and using the frequent partial similarities in the context of overall contrasts to define the differences that have been historically critical.