The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention

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Summary: How the Chinese invented it all!
Review: Printing, Compasses, and Gunpowder were the key inventions that enabled the renaissance. The Chinese invented these and much more. This book is a distillation of Professor Joseph Needham's massive 13 volume "Science and Civilisation in China." It is a fascinating science history.

Rating:
Summary: How the Chinese invented it all!
Review: Printing, Compasses, and Gunpowder were the key inventions that enabled the renaissance. The Chinese invented these and much more. This book is a distillation of Professor Joseph Needham's massive 13 volume "Science and Civilisation in China." It is a fascinating science history.

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Summary: Pretty but totally unreliable
Review: The sole virtue of this volume lies in its attractive illustrations. It is stuffed to overflowing with errors concerning well-known facts of science, technology, and European scientific and technological history. I do not know enough about Chinese history to assess its reliability in those respects, but based on his performance in other respects, I would not trust anything this author has to say on any subject whatever, absent independent verification.