Science Civilisation China Volume 5 Chemistry Chemical Technology… 9780521085731

Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts\n\nJoseph Needham (Author), Ho Ping-Yu (Author), Lu Gwei-Djen (Author), Nathan Sivin (Author)\n\n9780521085731 (SKU 3287550), Cambridge University Press\n\nHardback, published 25 September 1980\n\n804 pages\n25.5 x 19.7 x 5 cm, 1.754 kg\n\n\""Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man.\""\nLaurence Picken, Cambridge University\n\nThe 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).\n\nList of]