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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zhang, Changlin, author. | Heaney, Jonathan, author.

Invisible rainbow : a physicist’s introduction to the science behind classical Chinese medicine / Changlin Zhang, with Jonathan Heaney.

LCCN 2015049047 (print) | LCCN 2016003076 (ebook) | ISBN 9781623170103 (print) ISBN 1623170109 (print) | ISBN 9781623170110 (ebook)

LCSH: Medicine, Chinese. | Acupuncture. | Electromagnetism—Physiological effect.

LCC R601 .Z6852 2016 (print) | LCC R601 (ebook) | DDC 610.951—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049047