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100 1 Winchester, Simon.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
n50015793
245 14 The man who loved China :|bthe fantastic story of the
eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the
Middle Kingdom /|cSimon Winchester.
250 1st ed.
264 1 New York, NY :|bHarper,|c[2008]
264 4 |c©2008
300 xii, 316 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-294) and
index.
505 0 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.
505 0 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.
520 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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600 10 Needham, Joseph,|d1900-1995.|tScience and civilisation in
China.
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