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000324370 1001_ $$aWinchester, Simon.
000324370 24514 $$aThe man who loved China :$$bthe fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom /$$cSimon Winchester.
000324370 250__ $$a1st ed.
000324370 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bHarper,$$cc2008.
000324370 300__ $$axii, 316 p. :$$bill., maps ;$$c24 cm.
000324370 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
000324370 5050_ $$aPrologue -- The barbarian and the celestial -- Bringing fuel in snowy weather -- The discovering of China -- The rewards of restlessness -- The making of his masterpiece -- Persona non grata: the certain fall from grace -- The passage to the gate.
000324370 5050_ $$aThe Barbarian and the Celestial -- Brining fuel in snowy weather -- the discovering of China -- The rewards of restlessness -- The making of His masterpiece -- Persona non grata: the certain fall from grace -- The passage to the gate.
000324370 520__ $$aThe extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China--long the world's most technologically advanced country. This married Englishman, a freethinking intellectual, while working at Cambridge University in 1937, fell in love with a visiting Chinese student, with whom he began a lifelong affair. He became fascinated with China, and embarked on a series of extraordinary expeditions to the farthest frontiers of this ancient empire. He searched everywhere for evidence to bolster his conviction that the Chinese were responsible for hundreds of mankind's most familiar innovations--including printing, the compass, explosives, suspension bridges, even toilet paper--often centuries before the rest of the world. His dangerous journeys took him across war-torn China to far-flung outposts, consolidating his deep admiration for the Chinese people. After the war, Needham began writing what became a seventeen-volume encyclopedia, Science and Civilisation in China.--From publisher description.
000324370 60010 $$aNeedham, Joseph,$$d1900-1995.
000324370 60010 $$aNeedham, Joseph,$$d1900-1995.$$tScience and civilisation in China.
000324370 650_0 $$aScientists$$zGreat Britain$$vBiography.
000324370 650_0 $$aScience$$zChina$$xHistory.
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