Needham, Joseph (with the Collaboration of:) Ho Ping-Yu, Lu Gwei-Djen and Nathan Sivin:

Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part IV: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980. 4°. xlviii, 772 S. illustr. OHLwd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und OUmschlag.

Needham, Joseph (with the Collaboration of:) Ho Ping-Yu, Lu Gwei-Djen and Nathan Sivin: Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 5: Chemistry and Chemical Technology. Part IV: Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus, Theories and Gifts. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980. 4°. xlviii, 772 S. illustr. OHLwd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und OUmschlag.

„The fifth volume of Dr Needham’s immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics). The present part provides detailed descriptions, not hitherto available in the West, of laboratory apparatus, the processes of distillation and extraction, aqueous reactions, and the main elements of Chinese (particularly Taoist) alchemical theory [Auszug Klappentext]. Mit sehr umfangreicher Bibliographie Verzeichnis der Abbildungen und Index. – Umschlag mit geringen Randläsuren und leicht gebräunt und ein kl. Fleck.

• Katalog: Alchemie & Hermetik
• Sprache: Englisch (en)
• Bestellnummer: 08036

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