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Science and civilisation in China

Title
Science and civilisation in China / by Joseph Needham.
ISBN
0521320216 (v. 5, pt. 9)
Published
Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press, 1954-<1988>
Physical Description
<volumes 1-4; volumes 5, parts 1-5, 7, 9; volumes 6, parts 1-2; in 16 > : illustrations, maps (part folded) ; 26 cm.
Notes
Half title of volume 5, pt. 9 in Chinese characters: Zhongguo ke xue ji shu shi.
Variant and related titles
Zhongguo ke xue ji shu shi.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 29, 1995
Bibliography
Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Incomplete contents
v. 1. Introductory orientations.
v. 2. History of scientific thought.
v. 3. Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth.
v. 4. Physics and physical technology: pt. 1. Physics, with the collaboration of Wang Ling and the special co-operation of Kenneth Girdwood Robinson. pt. 2. Mechanical engineering. pt. 3. Civil engineering and nautics with the collaboration of Wang Ling and Lu Gwei-Djen.
v. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology: pt. 1. Paper and printing / by Tsien Tsuen-hsuin. pt. 2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. pt. 4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus, theories, and gifts. pt. 5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy / with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 7. Military technology, the gunpowder epic. pt. 9. Textile technology, spinning and reeling / by Dieter Kuhn.
v. 6. Biology and biological technology. pt. 1. Botany. pt. 2. Agriculture / by Francesca Bray.
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