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Joseph Needham: Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5. Chemistry and chemical technology. Pt. III. Spagyrical discovery and invention: historical survey, from cinnabar elixirs to synthetic insulin. xxxv, 481 pp., 15 plates. Cambridge: University Press, 1976. £16.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Michael Loewe
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , February 1977 , pp. 187 - 189
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1977

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1 Huai-nan-tzu, 4.13b (Liu Wen-tien's edition).

2 ibid., 7.7a.

3 These inscriptions are seen on a particular type of TLV mirror. The formulae in question also appear on one example of another type of mirror which is specifically dated in a.d. 64 but whose authenticity may be suspect.

4 T'len Ch'ang wu , Wang Ch'ung ka tai ti chan-tou wei wu lun che , Jen min Ch'u-pan she, first published 1958, second edition, November 1973 An English translation of the greater part of the second edition has been published in Chinese Studies in Philosophy, VII, 1–2, 1975–1976Google Scholar

5 See T'len Ch'ang-wu's book, 36 (English translation, 19)