Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6 Biology and Biological Technology: Part 2 Agriculture. This item is unavailable.
Joseph Needham/ Francesca Bray
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Language: English
Published by Cambridge Univ Pr, 1984
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- Title
- Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6 Biology and Biological Technology: Part 2 Agriculture
- Author
- Joseph Needham/ Francesca Bray
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Pr
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0521250765
- ISBN 13
- 9780521250764
- Item weight
- 1.92 kilograms
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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Review
"[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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