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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 7, Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic

    Joseph Needham (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

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

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    Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa

    Gwei-Djen Lu,Joseph Needham,Lu Gwei-Djen

    A history of treatment in the theoretical structure of Chinese medicine, and a modern scientific rationale.

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    Adventure and Art: The First Hundred Years of Printing

    Michael Joseph,Paul Needham

    Accompanies a Rutgers University exhibition that highlights books published during the first century of printing - a transitional time of great innovation and accomplishment.

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    A History of Embryology

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    A History of Embryology

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China

    Joseph Needham,Ling Wang,Derek J. De Solla Price

    A reissue with a foreword and supplement, of a modern classic published in 1960. The invention of the mechanical clock was one of the most important turning points in the…

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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 2, General Conclusions and Reflections

    Joseph Needham

    A Science and Civilisation in China volume addressing questions that drove the entire project.

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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 7, The Social Background, Part 1, Language and Logic in Traditional China

    Joseph Needham,Christoph Harbsmeier (Universitetet i Oslo)

    A survey of the conceptual history of basic logical terminology in ancient China.

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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 13, Mining

    Peter J. Golas (University of Denver),Joseph Needham

    This is a history of Chinese mining and covers all aspects of mining from the Neolithic period to the present day. The author draws not only on written material but…

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    If I Am To Be Remembered: Correspondence Of Julian Huxley

    Krishna R Dronamraju (President, Foundation For Genetic Research, Usa),Joseph Needham (Cambridge, Uk)

    Julian Huxley was a biologist and the first director general of UNESCO. This book is a biographical account of Huxley as revealed through his own correspondence and that of his…

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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 3, Agro-Industries and Forestry

    Joseph Needham (University of Cambridge),Christian Daniels (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies),Nicholas K. Menzies (Ford Foundation, Beijing)

    Contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early 20th century. The second, by Nicholas K…

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    The Hall of Heavenly Records: Korean Astronomical Instruments and Clocks, 1380-1780

    Joseph Needham,Lu Gwei-Djen,John H. Combridge,John S. Major

    Under the Yi dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks was created. In this volume, four distinguished historians of Asian science demonstrate the context, purpose…

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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 9, Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling

    Joseph Needham,Dieter Kuhn (Bayerische-Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany)

    This study, the first of two parts, gives a comprehensive account of Chinese textiles and textile technology.

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    Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

    Joseph Needham,Ho Ping-Yu,Lu Gwei-Djen,Nathan Sivin (University of Pennsylvania)

    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…

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    RLE: China: History, Philosophy & Economics

    Various,R K I Quested,Joseph Needham (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College Needham Research Institute, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge),Herbert Allen Giles,Dr Pamela Nightingale

    Spanning half a century (1930-1987) of publication the volumes in this series provide an unrivalled panorama and analysis of China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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