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Science and Civilisation in China
Language: en
Pages: 1190
Authors: Joseph Needham
Categories: China
Type: BOOK - Published: 1971 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Joseph Needham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
Science and Civilisation in China, Part 7, Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic
Language: en
Pages: 838
Authors: Joseph Needham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-01-22 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking. The discovery of gunpowder in China by t
Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 1140
Authors: Helaine Selin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-11 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud ies. Reference works on other cultures tend either to omit science completely
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth
Language: en
Pages: 1146
Authors: Joseph Needham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1959 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the