The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester.
2008
Q143.N44 W56 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester.
Author
Winchester, Simon.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780060884598
0060884592
0060884592
Publication Details
New York, NY : Harper, c2008.
Language
English
Description
xii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
Q143.N44 W56 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
509.2 B
Summary
The 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-294) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
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.
The 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.
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.
The 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.