Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture

Science and Civilisation in China, Part 2, Agriculture
Author: Joseph Needham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 768
Release: 1984-04-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521250764

This second part of the sixth volume of Joeph Needham's great enterprise is an account of the technological history of agriculture, with major sections devoted to field systems, implements and techniques (sowing, harvesting, storing) and crop systems (what has grown and where and how crops rotated).