Science and Civilisation in China, Part 1, Paper and Printing

by Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, Joseph Needham, Tsuen-Hsuin Tsien

Part one of the fifth volume of Joseph Needham's great enterprise is written by one of the project's collaborators. Professor Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin, working in regular consultation with Dr Needham, has written the most comprehensive account of every aspect of paper and printing in China to be published in the West. From a close study of the vast mass of source material, Professor Tsien brings order and illumination to an area of technology which has been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521086906
• ISBN13: 9780521086905
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 2.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 9.8"