Author Name: Needham, Joseph
Title: Science in Traditional China
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press
ISBN Number: 0674794397 / 9780674794399
Seller ID: 1201
ABOUT THE BOOK: Science in Traditional China: FROM THE PUBLISHER: The world's preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the way to similar elements of Indian, Hellenistic, and Arabic cultures. A major portion of the book concentrates on Taoist alchemy that led not only to the invention of gunpowder and firearms, but also, through the search for macrobiotic life-elixirs, to the rise of modern medical chemistry. ; 134 pages
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