Science and Civilisation in China
Volume 5. Chemistry and Chemical Technology
Part 4. Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts
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- Authors:
- Joseph Needham
- Ho Ping-Yu
- Lu Gwei-Djen
- Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania
- Date Published: September 1980
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521085731
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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).
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- Date Published: September 1980
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521085731
- length: 804 pages
- dimensions: 255 x 197 x 50 mm
- weight: 1.754kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Author's note
33. Alchemy and chemistry (continued)
Bibliographies
General index.
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