Ancient China's Technology And Science

Catalogued according to different scientific fields, the book draws wisdom from authoritative experts in the Institute of the History of Natural Sciences (IHNS) from the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), and comprehensively introduces ancient China's scientific and technological achievements in such fields as astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, geology, biology, agriculture, medicine, printing, spinning and weaving, metallurgy and foundry, machinery, architecture,shipbuilding and navigation, and military technology, ect. This book is of high academic quality yet written in the simplest language possible, and thus is a very readable popular science collection.