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<p>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.</p>

xii, 316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester.

The life and works of Joseph Needham / edited by Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, Amitabha Ghosh.

<p>Clockwise from the right: Professor Nathan Sivin, Lindy Ma, Carole Sivin (?), name not supplied, Joseph Needham, name not supplied, Professor Kan Wen Ma</p>

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 15.5 x 20 cm

Joseph Needham (centre) with scholars of Chinese history and sciences. Colour photograph, 1988.

xxi, 490 pages, 9 unnumbered pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portrait ; 24 cm

Changing perspectives in the history of science: essays in honour of Joseph Needham / edited by Mikuláš Teich and Robert Young.

Reminiscence of a roving scholar : science, humanities, and Joseph Needham / Ho Peng Yoke.

Needham Research Institute newsletter / East Asian History of Science Trust.

Situating the history of science : dialogues with Joseph Needham / edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina.

Joseph Needham : un taoïste d'honneur autobiographie. De l'embryologie à la civilisation chinoise entretiens avec Didier Gazagnadou.

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170 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

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The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester.

The life and works of Joseph Needham / edited by Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, Amitabha Ghosh.

Joseph Needham (centre) with scholars of Chinese history and sciences. Colour photograph, 1988.

Changing perspectives in the history of science: essays in honour of Joseph Needham / edited by Mikuláš Teich and Robert Young.

Reminiscence of a roving scholar : science, humanities, and Joseph Needham / Ho Peng Yoke.

Needham Research Institute newsletter / East Asian History of Science Trust.

Situating the history of science : dialogues with Joseph Needham / edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina.

Joseph Needham : un taoïste d'honneur autobiographie. De l'embryologie à la civilisation chinoise entretiens avec Didier Gazagnadou.

Joseph Needham : 20th-century Renaissance man / by Maurice Goldsmith.

Joseph Needham.

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The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester.

The life and works of Joseph Needham / edited by Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, Amitabha Ghosh.

Joseph Needham (centre) with scholars of Chinese history and sciences. Colour photograph, 1988.

Changing perspectives in the history of science: essays in honour of Joseph Needham / edited by Mikuláš Teich and Robert Young.

Reminiscence of a roving scholar : science, humanities, and Joseph Needham / Ho Peng Yoke.

Needham Research Institute newsletter / East Asian History of Science Trust.

Situating the history of science : dialogues with Joseph Needham / edited by S. Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina.

Joseph Needham : un taoïste d'honneur autobiographie. De l'embryologie à la civilisation chinoise entretiens avec Didier Gazagnadou.

Joseph Needham : 20th-century Renaissance man / by Maurice Goldsmith.

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