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A popular version of the "Science and Civilisation in China" series by Cambridge scholar Joseph Needham, arranged invention by invention, with quotations from contemporary Chinese sources, and endpapers detailing the time lags between Chinese inventions and their acceptance/duplication in the West.
- Author
- Temple, Robert, Needham, Joseph
- Publisher
- Prion Books Ltd; Prion Books Ltd (formerly Multimedia Books Ltd)
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781853750786
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (64 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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