英国著名学者李约瑟博士是深受中国人民敬佩的国际友人,他将一生中的大部分时间致力于中国科学技术史的研究,并为长篇巨著《中国科学技术史》的编写,不顾年迈,为有生之年完成此巨著,不遗余力而争分夺秒,目前从已出版的部分看,已引起世界极大反响。人们也许还不知道李约瑟博士另 Dr. Joseph Needham, a famous British scholar, is an international friend deeply admired by the Chinese people. He devoted much of his life to the study of the history of science and technology in China and wrote a long masterpiece “History of Chinese Science and Technology” To complete this monograph, sparing no effort to race against time, from the published part of the moment, has aroused great repercussions from the world. People may not yet know Dr. Joseph Needham