The world’s preeminent authority on Chinese science explores the philosophy, social structure, arts, crafts, and even military strategies that form our understanding of Chinese science, making instructive comparisons along the…

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Originally published in 1942, this book contains eleven lectures commemorating the visit of the great educator Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius) to Cambridge in 1641. The lectures all come from a…

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…

Presents the career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. This book…

First published in 1959 as the second edition of a 1934 original, this book describes the Western history of embryology from prehistoric concepts of foetal growth through Graeco-Roman antiquity to…

This third volume of Colin Ronan’s abridgement of Joseph Needham’s monumental work is devoted to Chinese contributions to nautical science and technology

This monograph is a review of the present state of knowledge of the relationships and consequences of over 25 centuries of interactions between the Amerindian and Asean Circum-Pacific regions. A…