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

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

Simon Winchester

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Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest l...

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