Science and Civilisation in China, Volume V: Chemistry and Technology; Part IV: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

Needham, Joseph; Ping-YU, Ho (Collaborator); Gwei-Djen, Lu (Collaborator); Sivin, Nathan (Contributor)

ISBN 10: 052108573X / ISBN 13: 9780521085731

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980

About this Item

Hardcover first edition with unclipped dust jacket. Boards quarter bound in black cloth, with cloth sides blocked with a print from a painted paper scroll. Includes 164 illustrations and 7 tables. Jacket spine is tanned and has a watermark to spine foot, jacket edges lightly worn, with light foxing to front and rear and an ink mark to front inner flap. Board edges lightly worn, spine cocked. Foxing to page block, page edges, prelims and to a few internal pages. Previous owner's name penned to FEP, otherwise contents are unmarked throughout. AD.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science and Civilisation in China, Volume V: Chemistry and Technology; Part IV: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052108573X
• ISBN 13: 9780521085731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Culture/Civilization/Society

About this title

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.