MAN WHO LOVED CHINA: THE FANTASTIC STORY OF THE ECCENTRIC SCIENTIST WHO UNLOCKED THE MYSTERIES OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
by WINCHESTER, SIMON;
List Price: HK$ 266.00
¡@ISBN
9780060884598
¡@Subject
CHINA
¡@Publisher
HARPER COLLINS US
¡@Publication
2008
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, brings to life 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. After the war, Needham was determined to tell the world what he had discovered, and began writing his majestic Science and Civilization in China, describing the country's long and astonishing history of invention and technology.
