He dedicated enough to combine the efforts by many historians, Occident and Orient working together, in order to establish a first survey of this unknown continent: science history of the Chinese world.

• 李约瑟花了很大的精力把东西方许多历史学家的研究成果组织在一起，目的是要初步探知这个未知大陆--中国科学史的概况。