Science and Civilisation in China

Volume 6. Biology and Biological Technology

Part 1. Botany

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Author: Joseph Needham, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Date Published: March 1986
availability: Available
format: Hardback
isbn: 9780521087315

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The sixth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth and fifth, is subdivided into parts for ease of presentation and assimilation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology (which includes botany and agriculture, zoology, all aspects of medicine, and pharmaceutics).
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"Delve into Needham's delightful prose, and be awed with him at the wondrous things Chinese science and civilization have wrought."
Michael T. Stieber, Huntia
"[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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Product details
- Date Published: March 1986
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521087315
- length: 756 pages
- dimensions: 310 x 211 x 62 mm
- weight: 1.83kg
- contains: 41 b/w illus. 14 maps 22 tables
- availability: Available
Author
Joseph Needham, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
With
Lu Gwei-Djen, Robinson College, Cambridge
With contributions by
Huang Hsing-Tsung, National Science Foundation, Washington DC