SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA Volume 5, Part II: CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention:Magisteries of Gold and Immortality

NEEDHAM, Joseph With the collaboration of LE GWEI-JEN

ISBN 10: 0521085713 / ISBN 13: 9780521085717

Published by Cambridge University Press, London etc., 1974

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Black cloth spine with illustrated boards. f/piece of Chinese text with one red character + t.p. with publisher's red logo xxxii + 510, 28 ills numbered 1300-1341, with plates 142 - 159 between pp.304-305,Tables 93-105 (95 on pp.162-187); were it not for a couple of tiny tanning spots to top edge this would rate As New. This series is perhaps the greatest scholarship project of the 20th century. 19.5 cm x 25 cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA Volume 5, Part II: CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention:Magisteries of Gold and Immortality
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, London etc.
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521085713
• ISBN 13: 9780521085717
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Occult etc. inc. Psychic Research

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Synopsis

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).

Book Description

The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking.