Joseph Needham Wang Ling Ping Yü (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1970. First Edition. 9 ¾ x 7 ½ in. xix,470 pages, Index, Bibliography. Folding Chart, 104 illustrations including 43 on glossy stock. Maroon cloth, tiny nick in edge, rest in near fine condition, owner's name stamped on lower edge of text block, on front pastedown, and on two lower margins. Dustjacket has small break on fold, price clipped. Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology, based largely on collaborative work with Wang Ling, Lu Gwei-Djen, and Ho Ping-Yu, and are "by-products" of a larger, multi-volume work, Science and Civilization in China. ; 104 illustrations; 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 489 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxv, 479 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm. Summary:The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, 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 alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology.

4to. pp xix, 470. 99 illustrations. Not an ex-library copy as is usually found. Very good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has a mild lean to the binding which has some looseness but remains solid overall, small spots of light soiling to the head and fore edge of the text block that do not bleed onto the pages, faint bowing to the covers, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and some minor sunning to the cover edges, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 742 pages. 10.00x8.00x2.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [The Most Authoritative Survey of the History of Chinese Science and Technological Advances] 14 volumes. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jackets in protective mylar covers. Contents: V. 1. Introductory orientations; V. 2. History of scientific thought; V. 3. Mathematics and the science of the heavens and the earth; V. 4. Physics and physical technology. Pt.1. Physics; Pt.2. Mechanical engineering; Pt.3. Civil engineering and nautics; V. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology. Pt.1. Paper and printing; Pt.2. Spagyrical discovery and invention : magisteries of gold and immortality; Pt.3. Spagyrical discovery and invention : historical survey from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin; Pt.4. Spagyrical discovery and invention : apparatus, theories and gifts; Pt.5. Spagyrical discovery and invention : physiological alchemy; Pt.6. Military technology : missiles and sieges; Pt.7. Military technology : the gunpowder epic; V.6. Biology and biological technology. Pt.1. Botany; Pt.2. Agriculture. Needham's work was significant because it brought attention to the superiority of Chinese science and technology to those of European, prior to the 16th century and examined the multi-cultural roots of science. One of the most significant questions Needham raises is why Chinese science stopped innovating after the 16th century. An seminal work in the history of China, science, and the development of the world.