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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Winchester, Simon.     Subjects     Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995     Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995. Science and civilisation in China.     Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Science -- China -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Winchester, Simon.       by title:      The man who loved Ch...         MARC Display

The man who loved China : the fantastic story of the eccentric scientist who unlocked the mysteries of the Middle Kingdom / Simon Winchester. by Winchester, Simon. New York : Harper, c2008. Subjects Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995   Needham, Joseph, 1900-1995. Science and civilisation in China.   Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Science -- China -- History. ISBN:  9780060884598 : 0060884592 Description:  xii, 316 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Biography B Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Biography B Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 509.2 Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Biography B Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 509.2 Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Biography B Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Biography B Needham Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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