The man who loved China: the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

The extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China--long the world's most technologically advanced country. This married Englishman, a freethinking intellectual, while working at Cambridge University in 1937, fell in...

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Main Author: Winchester, Simon 1944- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY HarperCollins Publ. 2008
In:Year: 2008
Edition:1. ed.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Needham, Joseph 1900-1995
Further subjects:B Science (China) History
B Needham, Joseph (1900-1995) Science and civilisation in China
B Needham, Joseph (1900-1995)
B Scientists (Great Britain) Biography
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