Author : Joseph Needham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1983-08-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521085748
Book Description
The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).