About this title: Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed and coherent account of the development of science, technology and medicine in China from the earliest times until the advent of the Jesuits and the beginnings of modern science in the late seventeenth century. It is a vast work, necessarily more suited to the scholar and research worker than the general reader. This paperback version, abridged and re-written by Colin Ronan, makes this extremely important study accessible to a wider ...
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Description: Abridged Edition, Volume Two, 459 pp., Paperback, small creases to top corner edges of covers, else very good *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521218214ISBN:0521218217
Description: Very Good. 0521218217 Cambridge Univ Press hardcover w/dustjacket, 1978, clean, No marks/tears or creasing, some foxing is present on page edges and dustjacket verso else minimal wear...New mylar cover, bubble-wrapped and mailed in a Box w/delivery confirmation...NOT ex-library. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780521315364ISBN:0521315360
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press., Cambridge.
Date Published: 1978.
ISBN-13:9780521218214ISBN:0521218217
Description: Maps, black and white photographic plates, tables, ix + 326pp, bibliography, index, gilt lettering spine, dustjacket little creased and chipped at edges and corners, small damp stain to reverse of dustjacket, otherwise internally clean, a good hardback copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780521218214ISBN:0521218217
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, hardback with D/W. 326pp, indexed with 29 b/w illustrations and 18 tables. This book covers the material treated in volumes 1 & 2 of Dr Needham's original work. VG/VG. (SHELF 49? ? ) ISBN: 0521218217. read more
Edition: Volume 1
Binding: Hand Bound
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521218214ISBN:0521218217
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Black cover with silver lettering on spine, very minor edgewear and bumping. Binding and hnges tight. Inside pages clean and unmaraked. Index 326 pp. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780521315364ISBN:0521315360
Description: New. In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were compa... read more
Description: 1978. Cambridge. Hard cover. Book-VG. DJ-VG. 9.5x6.5. 326pp. 29 b/w figures. Ex University Library. This book covers the material treated in volumes 1 & 2 of Dr Needham's original work. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1982
ISBN-13:9780521235822ISBN:0521235820
Description: Good+ Volume 2. Cloth hard cover withdrawn from a university library with usual institutional markings. Firm, clean binding and unmarked text pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780521315364ISBN:0521315360
Description: New. In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences such as: mathmatics; astronomy and meteorology; earth sciences-geography, cartography, geol... read more
Edition: ABRIDGED ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521315364ISBN:0521315360
Description: New. In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham? ? 's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with the non-mathematician in mind. The text is next concerned with the sciences of astronomy and meteorology, followed by the Earth sciences: geography, ... read more
Edition: ABRIDGED ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521315364ISBN:0521315360
Description: New. Please note that deliveries to addresses in the UK and Europe will be in 4-14 business days. Other countries should refer to Alibris standard times. In the second volume of his abridgement of Joseph Needham? ? 's original text, Colin Ronan looks in detail at the early Chinese contributions to various sciences. The first section deals with mathematics, and it is shown that the Chinese works were comparable with the pre-Renaissance achievements of the old world. This account is written with ... read more
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