Bomb, book and compass : Joseph Needham and the great secrets of China
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Bomb, book and compass : Joseph Needham and the great secrets of China
（Penguin books, . Penguin non-fiction）
Penguin, 2009
- : pbk
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Bomb, book & compass : Joseph Needham and the great secrets of China
The man who loved China
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"First published in the United States of America as The man who loved China by HarperCollins 2008"--T.p. verso
"First published in Great Britain by Viking 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-297) and index
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内容説明
The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions: gunpowder, printing and the compass. What he didn't know was that the Chinese had been successfully using all three, long before the west ever 'invented' them. And yet it was another 300 years before a remarkable man called Joseph Needham embarked on his epic, lifetime's work which would finally set the record straight. Inspired by a wartime mission to occupied China, he started writing what would become a twenty-four-volume masterpiece, chronicling the nation's astonishing history of invention and technology over five thousand years. It was, and remains, the greatest work on China ever created in the Western world. In "Bomb, Book and Compass", Simon Winchester tells the story of Joseph Needham, his magnificent book, the passion that inspired it, and the remarkable rise of the Chinese nation that continues to this day.
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