Item #8719 THE GENIUS OF CHINA; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention / Robert Temple / Introduced by Joseph Needham. Robert K. G. Temple.
THE GENIUS OF CHINA; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention / Robert Temple / Introduced by Joseph Needham
THE GENIUS OF CHINA; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention / Robert Temple / Introduced by Joseph Needham
THE GENIUS OF CHINA; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention / Robert Temple / Introduced by Joseph Needham

THE GENIUS OF CHINA; 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and Invention / Robert Temple / Introduced by Joseph Needham

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. PHOTOS, CHARTS, inventions. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Small quarto (10" x 7 3/4"), black cloth with gold lettering on spine, Introduction by Joseph Needham, lavishly illustrated with examples of Chinese inventions and technology in B&W and some color, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) with 5 Chinese scenes, splendid endpapers with tables in color comparing early Chinese inventions with--usually centuries later--Western comparables, 254 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. Fine / Fine. Item #8719
ISBN: 9780233002026

Science and Civilization in China is the finest survey of Chinese science and technology by the British genius (biochemist- turned-sinologist), Dr. Joseph Needham (1900 - 1995).

Robert Temple (b.1945), a professor of the history and philosophy of science at Tsinghua University, Beijing, worked with Needham to summarize many of the findings in the latter's magisterial and encyclopedic series.

FINE COPY: Solid and clean in a comparable clean and bright unclipped dust jacket No previous owner or reminder marks.

Price: $40.00

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