Science and Civilisation in China, Part 7, Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Science and Civilisation in China
ISBN-10
0521303583
ISBN-13
9780521303583
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 22nd, 1987
Print length
742 Pages
Weight
1,920 grams
Dimensions
24.60 x 18.90 x 6.00 cms
Product Classification:
History of science
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The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham's immense undertaking.
The Gunpowder Epic is one of three planned publications on military technology within Dr Needham''s immense undertaking. The discovery of gunpowder in China by the 9th century AD was followed by its rapid applications. It is now clear that the whole development from bombs and grenades to the invention of the metal-barrel hand gun took place in the Chinese culture area before Europeans had any knowledge of the mixture itself. Uses in civil engineering and mechanical engineering were equally important, before the knowledge of gunpowder spread to Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Dr Needham''s new work continues to demonstrate the major importance of Chinese science and technology to world history and maintains the tradition of one of the great scholarly works of the twentieth century.
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