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Simon Winchester Bomb, Book And Compass

Joseph Needham And The Great Secrets Of China

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2009

Paperback

336

Standard

264619

978-0-14-101158-5

0-14-101158-0

popular science

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Inspired by a wartime mission to occupied China, Joseph Needham started writing what would become a twenty-four-volume masterpiece, chronicling the nation's history of invention and technology over five thousand years. This book tells the story of Joseph Needham, his book, the passion that inspired it, and the rise of Chinese nation.

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