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Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
Bomb Book and Compass Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
Author: Simon Winchester
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. What he didn't know was that the Chinese had been successfully using all three long before the West ever 'invented' them. And yet it was ano...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780670913787
ISBN-10: 0670913782
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Viking Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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