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Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology. Pt. II. Spagyrical discovery and invention: magisteries of gold and immortality, xxxii, 510 pp., 20 plates. Cambridge; University Press, 1974. £12.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

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1 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, The encounter of man and nature, London, Allen and Unwin, 1968, 103.Google Scholar

2 Nasr, op. cit., 97–8.

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4 Lynn White, art. cit., 1205.

5 Lynn White, art. cit., 1206.

6 I am grateful to Mr. Cupitt for a private communication of these views. For a further reference to his opinions, see the volume under review, p. xxv, note (e).

7 Tso chuan, Duke Chao, 7th year; Legge, The Chinese classics, 1872, v, pt. n, 618; Couvreur, La chronique de la principauté de Lou, iii, 141; Lun-heng, ed. Huang Hui, 894; Forke, Lun-heng, pt. I, 209.

8 See Wen-wu, 1974, 7, plates n and v, and China Pictorial, 1974, 11, p. 40, for the preliminary reports of this painting.