英国学者罗伯特·坦雷尔去年出版了《中国——发现和发明的国度》一书。他在书中认为:现代世界赖以建立的基本的发明创造,可能一半以上源自中国。书中写到,除指南针、火药、纸、印刷术外,现代农业、航运、石油 Last year, British scholar Robert Tanrell published “China - a Kingdom of Discovery and Invention.” In his book, he believes that more than half of the basic inventions and inventions that the modern world depends on originate from China. The book said that in addition to the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing, modern agriculture, shipping, oil