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 4: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts
titlecomplete: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume 5: Chemistry and chemical technology, Part 4: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts
genres: Alchemy, Science, History, China
ratings_count: 5
series: Science and Civilisation in China
publisher: Cambridge University Press