Clerks and Craftsmen in China and the West: Lectures and Addresses on the History of Science and Technology

These essays are mainly by-products of the writing of Science and Civilization in China, Dr. Needham's great work on the history of Chinese science, scientific thought and technology, now in the third decade of its production. Many are lectures of varying degrees of formality, others communications to international symposia, the remainder publications in journals or collaborative works.