The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, 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; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
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"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University
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The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology.
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In this sub-section we must try to lay bare the roots of chemistry in Chinese culture; a development inspired by the profound belief that longevity and material immortality were possible, and that these that these could be attained by a variety of practical techniques. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tshan thung chhi, red bole clay, physiological alchemy, alchemical elaboratory, pharmaceutical natural history, stannic sulphide, hsiang lei, lung kao, bright window dust, pin tshao, elixir formulae, flowing pearls, primary vitalities, elixir method, elixir poisoning, writer unknown, pharmaceutical natural histories, shen tan, elixir recipes, mao chi, nei tan, elixir alchemy, material immortality, chin tan, huan tan Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tao Tsang, Wei Po-Yang, Pao Phu Tzu, Sun Ssu-Mo, Thao Hung-Ching, Kinship of the Three, Book of Changes, Yuan Han-Chhing, Wang Chieh, Chhen Kuo-Fu, Chhien Han Shu, Nei Phien, Sung Shih, Wang Chhung, Han Wu Ti, Later Han, Chen Tsung, Huai Nan Tzu, Lao Tzu, Shih Chi, Chin Shu, Liu Hsiang, Mei Piao, Tan Ching Yao, Chang Tao-Ling New!
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In this sub-section we must try to lay bare the roots of chemistry in Chinese culture; a development inspired by the profound belief that longevity and material immortality were possible, and that these that these could be attained by a variety of practical techniques. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
tshan thung chhi, red bole clay, physiological alchemy, alchemical elaboratory, pharmaceutical natural history, stannic sulphide, hsiang lei, lung kao, bright window dust, pin tshao, elixir formulae, flowing pearls, primary vitalities, elixir method, elixir poisoning, writer unknown, pharmaceutical natural histories, shen tan, elixir recipes, mao chi, nei tan, elixir alchemy, material immortality, chin tan, huan tan Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tao Tsang, Wei Po-Yang, Pao Phu Tzu, Sun Ssu-Mo, Thao Hung-Ching, Kinship of the Three, Book of Changes, Yuan Han-Chhing, Wang Chieh, Chhen Kuo-Fu, Chhien Han Shu, Nei Phien, Sung Shih, Wang Chhung, Han Wu Ti, Later Han, Chen Tsung, Huai Nan Tzu, Lao Tzu, Shih Chi, Chin Shu, Liu Hsiang, Mei Piao, Tan Ching Yao, Chang Tao-Ling New!
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- History of the Former Han Dynasty by Pan Ku in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Works of Geber by E. J. Holmyard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Alchemy and the Alchemists by R. Swinburne Clymer in Back Matter
- Handbook of Physiology by American Physiological Society in Back Matter
- The Rules of the Game: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on Models in Scholarly Thought; by Ta London in Back Matter
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