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This second part of the sixth volume of Joeph Needham's great enterprise is an account of the technological history of Chinese agriculture.
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"[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
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This second part of the sixth volume of Joeph Needham's great enterprise is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated).
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Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 6: Biology and Biological Technology, Part II: Agriculture
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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture
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Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture: 6
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Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6. Biology and Biological Technology. Part 2: Agriculture
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SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA Volume 6 Part II: Agriculture
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