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Language: English
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1984
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- Title
- Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture
- Author
- Joseph Needham
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- HRD
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521250765
- ISBN 13
- 9780521250764
- Item weight
- 1,915 grams
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
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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