This fifth volume abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China.
Main sections of Volume IV, part 2 of the major series: Engineers: their status tools & materials ; Basic mechanical principles & types of machines ; Land trans
Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China is a monumental piece of scholarship which breaks new ground in presenting to the Western reader a detailed a