![]() ![]() ![]() He is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and has served as an occasional broadcaster with the BBC. in Oriental Studies and Sanskrit from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. and various statements that I would like to have seen expressed rather differently". In the Beijing Review Needham himself criticized the book writing that it had "some mistakes. In doing so, he all too often overstates or misstates the facts." Golas also notes that Temple relies almost exclusively on the work of Joseph Needham and Science and Civilisation in China, ignoring later research which has made some of the texts Temple used obsolete. He seizes with, unabashed enthusiasm on any Chinese advance that might be seen to prefigure a later development in the west. ![]() In a review of The Genius of China Peter Golas wrote that " Temple is not very good at qualifying. He has also written several articles for Time Life and has contributed to journals such as the New Scientist. Some other books by Temple are: The Crystal Sun (2000), Oracles of the Dead (2005), The Genius of China (2007), The Sphinx Mystery (2009), and Egyptian Dawn (2010). ![]()
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