Hardcover in jacket, good with foxing at page edge and preliminaries, old pasted compliements note on endpaper from the East Asian History of Science Library, and with the initials of its directors, JN )Joseph Needham) and LGD (Lee Gwei-Djen) slight shelf wear, jacket taped to pastedown.

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Title: Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology; Part 1, Physics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Publication Date: 1977
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521058023
ISBN 13: 9780521058025
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Third Printing.
Signed: Signed by Author

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Dr Needham's fourth volume traces the development of physics and physical technology in ancient and medieval China. It is conveniently divided into three separate parts, the present volume, IV:1, dealing with physics as such, IV:2 with mechanical engineering and IV:3 with civil engineering and nautics.

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"[An] astonishing and enduring study...[Needham brings] depth of emotion and technical finesse to his task."
Jonathan Spence, New York Review of Books

"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University

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