Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, the Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections

by Joseph Needham

Joseph Needham, who died in 1995, was the greatest British historian of China of the last 100 years. His Science and Civilisation in China series caused a seismic shift in western perceptions of China, revealed as perhaps the world's most scientifically and technically productive country in pre-modern times. But why did the scientific and industrial revolutions not happen in China? Joseph Needham reflects on possible answers to this question in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521087325
• ISBN13: 9780521087322
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.7" x 9.8"