A section of Volume IV, part 1 and a section of Volume IV, part 3 of the major series:

Volumes I and II of the major series: China: its language, geography and history ; Chinese philosophy and scientific thought.

This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.

Contains two separate works. The first, by Christian Daniels, is a comprehensive history of Chinese sugar cane technology from ancient times to the early twenti

After two volumes mainly introductory, Dr Needham now embarks upon his systematic study of the development of the natural sciences in China. The Sciences of the