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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections
Joseph Needham
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Description for Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections
hardcover. Volume addressing questions that drove the entire project. Editor(s): Robinson, Kenneth Girdwood. Series Editor(s): Cullen, C. Series: Science and Civilisation in China. Num Pages: 336 pages, 21 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; KCZ; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 872.
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China series. For nearly fifty years, Needham and his collaborators have revealed the ideals, concepts and achievements of China's scientific and technological traditions from the earliest times to about 1800 through this great enterprise. During his long working lifetime, Needham kept in draft various essays, some written with collaborators, in which he set out his broad views on the Chinese social and historical context. These essays, edited by one of his closest collaborators, Kenneth Robinson, are contained in the present volume. A reading of this ... Read more
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China series. For nearly fifty years, Needham and his collaborators have revealed the ideals, concepts and achievements of China's scientific and technological traditions from the earliest times to about 1800 through this great enterprise. During his long working lifetime, Needham kept in draft various essays, some written with collaborators, in which he set out his broad views on the Chinese social and historical context. These essays, edited by one of his closest collaborators, Kenneth Robinson, are contained in the present volume. A reading of this ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Science and Civilisation in China
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521087322
SKU
V9780521087322
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About Joseph Needham
Joseph Needham FRS (1900–1995) was the founder of the Science and Civilisation in China project. Kenneth Girdwood Robinson joined Joseph Needham in 1979 in Cambridge to help him complete the unpublished volumes of Science and Civilisation in China, and wrote several of the pieces included in the present volume.
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