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

Joseph Needham author Lu Gwei-Djen author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Feb '86

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

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

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).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).

"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

ISBN: 9780521087315

Dimensions: 310mm x 211mm x 62mm

Weight: 1830g

756 pages