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Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China Book

Inspired by a wartime mission to occupied China, Joseph Needham started writing what would become a twenty-four-volume masterpiece, chronicling the nation's history of invention and technology over five thousand years. This book tells the story of Joseph Needham, his book, the passion that inspired it, and the rise of Chinese nation.Read More

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  • Penguin

    The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions: gunpowder, printing and the compass.

  • 0141011580
  • 9780141011585
  • Simon Winchester
  • 4 June 2009
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 336
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