Needham J. Science and Civilisation in China. Volume 4. Physics and physical technology. Part 3. Civil engineering and nautics

Cambridge University Press, 1971. — 929 p.Pursuing our exploration of the almost limitless caverns of Chinese scientific history, so much of which has never yet come to the knowledge and recognition of the rest of the world, we now approach the glittering veins of physics and physical technology; a subject which forms a single whole, constituting Volume Four, though delivered to the reader in three separate volumes. Nautical technology (Vol. 4, pt. 3).