Science and civilisation in China
By: by Joseph Needham.
Contributors: Wang, Ling.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Science -- China -- History; Technology -- China -- History; Science and civilization; China -- Civilization
Notes: 119,041-v.5, part 1.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Introductory orientations.; title: v. 2. History of scientific thought.; title: v. 3. Mathematics and the sciences of the heavens and the earth.; title: v. 4. Physics and physical technology: pt. 1. Physics, with the collaboration of Wang Ling and the special co-operation of Kenneth Girdwood Robinson. pt. 2. Mechanical engineering. pt. 3. Civil engineering and nautics with the collaboration of Wang Ling and Lu Gwei-Djen.; title: v. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology: pt. 1. Paper and printing / by Tsien Tsuen-hsuin. pt. 2. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 3. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. pt. 4. Spagyrical discovery and invention: apparatus, theories, and gifts. pt. 5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy / with the collaboration of Lu Gwei-Djen. pt. 7. Military technology, the gunpowder epic.; title: v. 6. Biology and biological technology. pt. 1. Botany. pt. 2. Agriculture / by Francesca Bray.