Simon Winchester on the Needham Question
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Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, will discuss and sign his new book The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom.In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Winchester brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically advanced country - Tattered Cover Book Store