Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham & the Great Secrets of China by Simon Winchester

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

Simon Winchester

317 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-paced
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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 su...

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