Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7 The Social Background: Part 2 General Conclusions and Reflections
Needham, Joseph/ Robinson, Kenneth Girdwood (Collaborator)/ Huang, Ray (Collaborator)/ Elvin, Mark (Introduction by)/ Robinson, Kenneth Girdwood (Editor)
ISBN 10: 0521087325 ISBN 13: 9780521087322
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Joseph Needham, who died in 1995, was the greatest British historian of China of the last 100 years. His Science and Civilisation in China series caused a seismic shift in western perceptions of China, revealed as perhaps the world's most scientifically and technically productive country in pre-modern times. But why did the scientific and industrial revolutions not happen in China? Joseph Needham reflects on possible answers to this question in the concluding volume of this series and provides fascinating insights into his great intellectual quest.
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Joseph Needham FRS (1900–1995) was the founder of the Science and Civilisation in China project.
Kenneth Girdwood Robinson joined Joseph Needham in 1979 in Cambridge to help him complete the unpublished volumes of Science and Civilisation in China, and wrote several of the pieces included in the present volume.
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Title: Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7 ...
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New