num_pages: 608
description: 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).
language: English
title: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 5: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy
titlecomplete: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 5: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy
genres: History, Alchemy, China
ratings_count: 7
series: Science and Civilisation in China
publisher: Cambridge University Press