num_pages: 510
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 2: Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality
publisher: Cambridge University Press