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Science and Civilisation in China
Joseph Needham
Introductory Orientations
Volume 1
Cambridge University Press
January 2009
On Sale: January 1, 2009
352 pages
ISBN: 052105799X
EAN: 9780521057998
Hardcover
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Dr Joseph Needham's account of the Chinese achievement in
science and technology will stand as one of the great works
of our time. It has been acclaimed by specialists in both
East and West and also by readers with wider and more
general interests. The text, based on research of a high
critical quality, is supported by many hundreds of
illustrations and is imbued with a warm appreciation of
China. Volume I is an introductory volume, in which Dr
Needham prepares his readers for the study of a whole human
culture. He begins by examining the structure of the Chinese
language; he reviews the geography of China and the long
history of its people, and discusses the scientific contacts
which have occurred throughout the centuries, between Europe
and East Asia.
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