The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 1

by Colin A. Ronan

Book Overview

Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521292867
• ISBN13: 9780521292863
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.6" x 9.2"