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    Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China (Paperback) By (author) Simon Winchester

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    Short Description for Bomb, Book and CompassInspired 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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    Mark Thwaite Joseph Needham (1900-1995) was an absolutely extraordinary scholar. He dedicated his life to the onging Science and Civilisation in China series, the successive parts of which have been published by Cambridge University Press since 1954. This huge work, perhaps unparalleled in the history of science and the social sciences, "is planned as a history of science, technology and medicine in China, seen in its fullest social and intellectual context, and illuminated by a deep and sympathetic understanding of the cultures of both East and West."



    In his fascinating study, Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China, Simon Winchester writes vividly about Needham's life and work which have "radically changed the ways in which scholars and scientists evaluate both the history of Chinese culture, and the history of science, medicine and technology understood as part of the common cultural heritage of the human race."



    Joseph Needham was the greatest Western sinologist of this century and, although seemingly not widely known in Britain, is "probably the British historian best-known on a world scale". He has been called the Erasmus of the twentieth century and Simon Winchester's excellent book is a wonderful way into his fascinating world. by Mark Thwaite

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