- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; Reprint edition (4 Jun 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141011580
- ISBN-13: 978-0141011585
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 382,117 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'An astonishing story' Sunday Times 'A fascinating, revealing story, told with Winchester's customary brio and wit' Telegraph 'One man's graceful, diverting account of another man's passion' The Times 'Succinct, enjoyable, engaging' Financial Times
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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 successfully using all three, long before the west ever 'invented' them. And yet it was another 300 years before a remarkable man called Joseph Needham embarked on his epic, lifetime's work which would finally set the record straight. Inspired by a wartime mission to occupied China, he started writing what would become a twenty-four-volume masterpiece, chronicling the nation's astonishing history of invention and technology over five thousand years. It was, and remains, the greatest work on China ever created in the Western world.
In Bomb, Book and Compass, Simon Winchester tells the story of Joseph Needham, his magnificent book, the passion that inspired it, and the remarkable rise of the Chinese nation that continues to this day.
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A good, interesting and rewarding biography of a life's span at an interesting time in recent history.
Simon Winchester has done considerable research and brought some colour to what could have been considered as a boring academic life spent in the cloisters of a Cambridge College.
Worth a read if only to encourage the travelling gene within us all.
Do not get confused with the same book entitled 'The man who loved China'
Simon Winchester has done considerable research and brought some colour to what could have been considered as a boring academic life spent in the cloisters of a Cambridge College.
Worth a read if only to encourage the travelling gene within us all.
Do not get confused with the same book entitled 'The man who loved China'
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