Science and Civilisation in China, Part 3, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin

The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology.

Joseph Needham (Author)

9780521210287, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 May 1976

516 pages
25.5 x 19.7 x 3.9 cm, 1.355 kg

"Perhaps the greatest single act of historical synthesis and intercultural communication ever attempted by one man."
Laurence Picken, Cambridge University

The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, 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 alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]