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Abe, Stanley: AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES - BACKHOFF AND WAGENER Acharya, Sanjay: Adams, Edward B: Alexander, William & Mason, George: Allen, H. M. ed: Andrews, F. H: ANNINGHE LIUYU DA SHI MU Yuhas, Louise ed: Asahi Shimbun ed: Asian Art Museum: THE ASIATIC JOURNAL AND MONTHLY MISCELLANY VOL II: THIRD SERIES |
RONS51 Ronan, Colin: THE SHORTER SCIENCE AND CIVILISATION IN CHINA. Volume 5. Cambridge, 1995. xvi, 364 pp. 389-527 b/w illustrations (including many plates). Tables, bibliography, index. 24x16 cm. Cloth. GBP 20.00 The shortened version of Joseph Needham's monumental work is still a substantial and informative contribution to knowledge, although 'prepared with a general non-scientific readership in mind'. This volume covers the first sections of Volume IV, part 3 and the final section of Volume IV, part 2 of its original: Roads; Walls and the Great Wall; Building Technology; Bridges; Hydraulic Engineering: I - Control, construction and maintenance of waterways; II - Water-raising machinery and water as a power source. Subjects: Science Item 542 in List 214. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?r/RONS51.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |