Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany
Will be published approx. on 6. February 1986
Book
Hardback
756 pages
978-0-521-08731-5 (ISBN)
Description
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).
Reviews / Votes
"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
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
22 Tables, unspecified; 14 Maps; 31 Halftones, unspecified; 10 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1542 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-08731-5 (9780521087315)
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