Title The genius of China : 3,000 years of science, discovery, and invention / Robert Temple ; introduced by Joseph Needham

Edition Paperback edition Published New York : Simon and Schuster, [1986] ©1986

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Description 254 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm Contents The West's debt to China 9 -- Part 1 Agriculture -- Part 2 Astronomy and Cartography -- Part 3 Engineering -- Part 4 Domestic and Industrial Technology -- Part 5 Medicine and Health -- Part 6 Mathematics -- Part 7 Magnetism -- Part 8 The Physical Sciences -- Part 9 Transportation and exploration -- Part 10 Sound and Music -- Part 11 Warfare -- Chinese dynasties 249 -- Charts showing time lags between Chinese invention and adoption by the West 252 Notes "Published in Great Britain by Patrick Stephens Ltd. as China: Land of Discovery and Invention"--T.p. verso Popularization of Joseph Needham's Science and civilisation in China Bibliography Bibliography: page 253 SUBJECT Wissenschaft und Kultur (Basel, Switzerland) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84802405 Subject Inventions -- China -- History. Science -- China -- History. Technology and civilization. Science and civilization. Technology -- China -- History. SUBJECT China -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992 China http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79091151 -- Technological innovations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009095 Author Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995. Science and civilisation in China Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995. LC no. 86015620 ISBN 0671620282

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