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Joseph Needham (editor): Science and Civilisation in China, Cambridge Univ. Press, 7 volumes, started in 1954.
Divided in 7 volumes; from volume 4 onwards, each volume is divided into parts which are separate physicial books. The (ongoing) project is managed by the Needham Research Institute. Official link.

Volume I. (1954) Introductory Orientations; Joseph Needham, Wang Ling.

Volume II. (1956) History of Scientific Thought; Joseph Needham, Wang Ling.

Volume III. (1959) Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and Earth; Joseph Needham, Wang Ling.

Volume IV.1 (1962) Physics; Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, Kenneth Girdwood Robinson.

Volume IV.2 (1965) Mechanical Engineering; Joseph Needham, Wang Ling.

Volume IV.3 (1971) Civil Engineering and Nautics; Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, Lu Gwei-djen.

Volume V.1 (1985) Paper and Printing; Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin.

Volume V.2 (1974) Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Magisteries of Gold and Immortality; Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-djen.

Volume V.3 (1976) Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Historical Survey, from Cinnabar Elixirs to Synthetic Insulin; Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yu [Ho Peng-Yoke], Lu Gwei-djen.

Volume V.4 (1980) Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Apparatus and Theory; Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-djen, Nathan Sivin.

Volume V.5 (1983) Spagyrical Discovery and Invention: Physiological Alchemy; Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-djen.

Volume V.6 (1994) Military Technology: Missiles and Sieges; Joseph Needham, Robin D.S. Yates, Krzysztof Gawlikowski, Edward McEwen and Wang Ling.

Volume V.7 (1987) Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic; Joseph Needham, Ho Ping-Yu, Lu Gwei-djen and Wang Ling.

Volume V.9 (1986) Textile Technology: Spinning and Reeling; Dieter Kuhn.

Volume V.13 (1999?) Mining; Peter Golas.

Volume VI.1 (1986) Botany; Joseph Needham, Lu Gwei-djen, Huang Hsing-Tsung.

Volume VI.2 (1988) Agriculture; Francesca Bray.

Volume VI.3 (1996) Agroindustries and Forestry; Christopher.A. Daniels, Nicholas .K. Menzies.

Volume VI.5 (2000?) Fermentations and Food Science; H.T. Huang.

Volume VI.6 (1999?) Medicine; Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-djen, edited by Nathan Sivin.

Volume VII.1 (1998) Language and Logic; Christof Harbsmeier.