Octavo, xxxii, 510 pages. In Good minus condition with a Fair minus dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, puncture in spine, creasing, smudging/shelf wear. Price unclipped: "$35.00 in U.S.A. ;￡12 in U.K.". Boards in orange cloth. Toning to spine, blemishes at bottom edge, light wear to spine caps and corners, cocked spine, blemishes on front. Text block has tanning/spotting to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w drawings, photographs, maps. Facing title page: � � � � � �"� / � � � � . With publisher information in Chinese facing half-title page, this may be Chinese reprint edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L. 1382206. FP New Rockville Stock.

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Title

SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. VOLUME 5. CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY. PART II: SPAGYRICAL DISCOVERY AND INVENTION - MAGISTERIES OF GOLD AND IMMORTALITY

Publisher

The University Press, Cambridge

Publication Date

1974

Language

English

ISBN 10

0521085713

ISBN 13

9780521085717

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

[Reprint?].

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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).

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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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