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317 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141011585
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Publication date: 06 May 2008
Description
The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions- gunpowder, printing and the compass. What he didn't know was that the Chinese had been su...
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317 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780141011585
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin
Publication date: 06 May 2008
Description
The seventeenth-century philosopher-statesman Francis Bacon famously declared that nothing had changed the world more profoundly than three great inventions- gunpowder, printing and the compass. What he didn't know was that the Chinese had been su...