The fifth volume of Dr Needham's immense undertaking, like the fourth, is subdivided into parts for ease of assimilation and presentation, each part bound and published separately. The volume as a whole covers the subjects of alchemy, early chemistry, and chemical technology (which includes military invention, especially gunpowder and rockets; paper and printing; textiles; mining and metallurgy; the salt industry; and ceramics).
- ISBN13 9780521085717
- Publish Date 27 September 1974
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 600
- Language English