Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology, Part 1, Botany

The volume as a whole covers the subjects of biology and biological technology.

Joseph Needham (Author), Lu Gwei-Djen (With), Huang Hsing-Tsung (Contributions by)

9780521087315, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 February 1986

756 pages, 41 b/w illus. 14 maps 22 tables
31 x 21.1 x 6.2 cm, 1.83 kg

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

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).

Subject Areas: History of science [PDX]