Chinese Thought, Society, and Science: The Intellectual and Social Background of Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China

by Derk Bodde

The Chinese have given the world paper, printing, porcelain, gunpowder, the mariner's compass and other inventions important to the history and development of science. Yet it was Europe, not China,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824813340
• ISBN13: 9780824813345
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 441 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.