Today we propose to honour the memopry of H.W. Dickinson by a disquisition which we believe would have accorded well with his own metallurgical interests. Its aim will be to elucidate the course whitch siderurgical knowledge and practice took in that other civilization away at the eastern end of the Old World, that great civilization of China to which our own owes so much more than is yet realized. We shall find some reason to view it with an absorbing interest, for in its development of the technology of iron and steel it seems to have followed a course radically different from that taken in Indian, Islamic and European culture. It will suggest to us, I hope, something of the debts which each great civilization owes to the others, for no one of them takes the lead all the time, and even in the days when intercourse and travel were very difficult, nothing completely stopped the flow of ideas and techniques.
Ref. 4479
Autor: Needham, Joseph
Idioma: English
Editorial: The Newcomen Society (Cambridge)
1964
18,50x25,50 cm.
76 páginas + 31 láminas con ilustraciones y fotografías en b/n. Tela editorial con ligeros puntos de perdida de color. Dorados. Firma. Buen estado.
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