Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Part 4, Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts

Joseph Needham (Author), Ho Ping-Yu (Author), Lu Gwei-Djen (Author), Nathan Sivin (Author)

9780521085731, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 September 1980

804 pages
25.5 x 19.7 x 5 cm, 1.754 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 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).

List of illustrations
List of tables
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Author's note
33. Alchemy and chemistry (continued)
Bibliographies
General index.

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]