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Title: The Genius of China: 3000 Years of Science, Discovery and Invention by Robert K. G. Temple, Joseph Needham ISBN: 0-671-67407-2 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: January, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Pretty but totally unreliable
Comment: 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.

Rating: 5
Summary: How the Chinese invented it all!
Comment: 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.