The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
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"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
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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, which was 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? In the concluding volume of this series, Joseph Needham reflects on possible answers to this question and gives fascinating insights into his great intellectual quest.
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This is the final volume of Needham's magnum opus. It concludes with an imaginary dialogue between Needham and one of the editors against the background of his funeral. It truly touched me. Needham was certainly a great man, a true mensch, and this is his farewell to the world.
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It will readily be allowed that the history of chemical apparatus and equipment must constitute a sector of cardinal importance in any history of alchemy and early chemistry. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phu hsiao, hai reservoir, mang hsiao, chhi kuan, descensory distillation, numinous cinnabar, physiological alchemy, annular gutter, chymical elaboratory, pharmaceutical natural history, shao chiu, alchemical elaboratory, chhi kuo, pharmaceutical natural histories, nao sha, elixir idea, primary vitalities, hsiao shih, writer unknown, mao chi, annular rim, material immortality, nei tan, cooling reservoir, alchemical apparatus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tshan Thung Chhi, Sherwood Taylor, East Asian, Central Asia, Thao Hung-Ching, Roger Bacon, Chhen Shao-Wei, Mao Shan, Old World, Old Silk Road, Tan Fang, Tao Tsang, Pao Phu Tzu, Bolus of Mendes, Book of Changes, Chen Kao, Huai Nan Tzu, Liu An, Mary the Jewess, Tshao Ching, Shen Nung, Hellenistic Corpus, Thien Shan, Tsou Yen, Wei Po-Yang New!
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