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Book Synopsis Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century by : Yingxing Song
Download or read book Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century written by Yingxing Song and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1637 classic on the history of traditional Chinese technology, profusely illustrated with 152 original woodcuts, covers agriculture, textiles, mining, metallurgy, chemical engineering, boat-building weapons manufacture, and more. Rich in scientific and historical background, its many annotations round out an impressive survey of technological progress.
Book Synopsis Chinese Technology in the 17th Century by :
Download or read book Chinese Technology in the 17th Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis T'ien kung k'ai-wu. Chinese technology in the seventeenth century. Transl. by E-tu Zen Sun [u.] Hsiu-chuan Sun by : Ying-hsing Sung
Download or read book T'ien kung k'ai-wu. Chinese technology in the seventeenth century. Transl. by E-tu Zen Sun [u.] Hsiu-chuan Sun written by Ying-hsing Sung and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Heavenly Creations; Tian Gong Kai Wu 天工开物 by : Song Yingxing
Download or read book Heavenly Creations; Tian Gong Kai Wu 天工开物 written by Song Yingxing and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book "Heavenly Creations" (天工开物, Tian Gong Kai Wu) was first published in 1637 (Ming Chongzhen decade Landmarks), a total of three volumes eighteen, the book is a collection of agriculture, handicrafts, such as machinery, brick , ceramics, sulfur , candle, paper, weapons, gunpowder , textile, dyeing, salt production, coal mining, oil extraction and other production technologies. "Tian Gong Kai Wu" is the first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production in the world. It is a comprehensive scientific and technical work in ancient China. Some people also call it an encyclopedic work. The author is Ming The scientist Song Yingxing . Foreign scholars call it "China's 17th century craft encyclopedia." In the book, the author emphasizes that human beings should coordinate with nature and manpower should be compatible with natural forces. It is the most abundant preserved document in China's scientific and technological history. It focuses more on the handicraft industry and reflects the productivity of China during the last years of the Ming Dynasty.
Book Synopsis The Crafting of the 10,000 Things by : Dagmar Schäfer
Download or read book The Crafting of the 10,000 Things written by Dagmar Schäfer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by Song Yingxing (1587–1666?), a minor local official living in southern China. His Tiangong kaiwu, the longest and most prominent of these works, documents the extraction and processing of raw materials and the manufacture of goods essential to everyday life, from yeast and wine to paper and ink to boats, carts, and firearms. In The Crafting of the 10,000 Things, Dagmar Schäfer probes this fascinating text and the legacy of its author to shed new light on the development of scientific thinking in China, the purpose of technical writing, and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Meticulously unfolding the layers of Song’s personal and cultural life, Schäfer chronicles the factors that motivated Song to transform practical knowledge into written culture. She then examines how Song gained, assessed, and ultimately presented knowledge, and in doing so articulates this era’s approaches to rationality, truth, and belief in the study of nature and culture alike. Finally, Schäfer places Song’s efforts in conjunction with the work of other Chinese philosophers and writers, before, during, and after his time, and argues that these writings demonstrate collectively a uniquely Chinese way of authorizing technology as a legitimate field of scholarly concern and philosophical knowledge. Offering an overview of a thousand years of scholarship, The Crafting of the 10,000 Things explains the role of technology and crafts in a culture that had an outstandingly successful tradition in this field and was a crucial influence on the technical development of Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Book Synopsis Chinese Technology in the 17. Century by : Ying-hsing Sung
Download or read book Chinese Technology in the 17. Century written by Ying-hsing Sung and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 天工開物 written by Yingxing Song and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sun, E-tu Zen, 1921- ed. and tr Publisher :University Park : Pennsylvania State University ISBN 13 : Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (63 download)
Book Synopsis T'ien-kung K'ai-wu : Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century by : Sun, E-tu Zen, 1921- ed. and tr
Download or read book T'ien-kung K'ai-wu : Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century written by Sun, E-tu Zen, 1921- ed. and tr and published by University Park : Pennsylvania State University. This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis T'ien-kung K'ai-wn by : Ying-hsing Sung
Download or read book T'ien-kung K'ai-wn written by Ying-hsing Sung and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tian'gong Gaiwu written by Yingxing Song and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms by : Teun Koetsier
Download or read book Explorations in the History of Machines and Mechanisms written by Teun Koetsier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the proceedings of HMM2012, the 4th International Symposium on Historical Developments in the field of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). These proceedings cover recent research concerning all aspects of the development of MMS from antiquity until the present and its historiography: machines, mechanisms, kinematics, dynamics, concepts and theories, design methods, collections of methods, collections of models, institutions and biographies.
Book Synopsis The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction by : James A. Millward
Download or read book The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction written by James A. Millward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction is a new look at an ancient subject: the silk road that linked China, India, Persia and the Mediterranean across the expanses of Central Asia. James A. Millward highlights unusual but important biological, technological and cultural exchanges over the silk roads that stimulated development across Eurasia and underpin civilization in our modern, globalized world.
Book Synopsis China's Quest for Foreign Technology by : William C. Hannas
Download or read book China's Quest for Foreign Technology written by William C. Hannas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes China’s foreign technology acquisition activity and how this has helped its rapid rise to superpower status. Since 1949, China has operated a vast and unique system of foreign technology spotting and transfer aimed at accelerating civilian and military development, reducing the cost of basic research, and shoring up its power domestically and abroad—without running the political risks borne by liberal societies as a basis for their creative developments. While discounted in some circles as derivative and consigned to perpetual catch-up mode, China’s "hybrid" system of legal, illegal, and extralegal import of foreign technology, combined with its indigenous efforts, is, the authors believe, enormously effective and must be taken seriously. Accordingly, in this volume, 17 international specialists combine their scholarship to portray the system’s structure and functioning in heretofore unseen detail, using primary Chinese sources to demonstrate the perniciousness of the problem in a manner not likely to be controverted. The book concludes with a series of recommendations culled from the authors’ interactions with experts worldwide. This book will be of much interest to students of Chinese politics, US foreign policy, intelligence studies, science and technology studies, and International Relations in general.
Book Synopsis Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology by : Fan Dainian
Download or read book Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology written by Fan Dainian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection were all selected from the first five volumes of the Journal of Dialectics of Nature published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences between 1979 and 1985. The Journal was established in 1979 as a comprehensive theoretical publication concerning the history, philosophy and sociology of the natural sciences. It began publication as a response to China's reform, particularly the policy of opening to the outside world. Chinese scholars began to undertake distinctive, original research in these fields. This collection provides a cross-section of their efforts during the initial phase. To enable western scholars to understand the historical process of this change in Chinese academics, Yu Guangyuan's `On the Emancipation of the Mind' and Xu Liangying's `Essay on the Role of Science and Democracy in Society' have been included in this collection. Three of the papers included on the philosophy of science are discussions of philosophical issues in cosmology and biology by scientists themselves. The remaining four are written by philosophers of science and discuss information and cognition, homeostasis and Chinese traditional medicine, the I Ching (Yi Jing) and mathematics, etc. Papers have been selected on the history of both classical and modern science and technology, the most distinctive of which are macro-comparisons of the development of science in China and the west. Some papers discuss the issue of the demarcation of periods in the history of science, the history of ancient Chinese mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, machinery, medicine, etc. Others discuss the history of modern physics and biology, the history of historiography of science in China and the history of regional development of Chinese science and technology. Also included are biographies of three post-eighteenth-century Chinese scholars, Li Shanlan (1811-1882), Hua Hengfang (1833–1902), and Cai Yuanpei (1868–1940), who contributed greatly to the introduction of western science and scholarship to China. In addition, three short papers have been included introducing the interactions between Chinese scholars and three great western scientists, Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and Robert A. Millikan.
Book Synopsis Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology by :
Download or read book Development History Of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide research on ancient glass began in the early 20th century. A consensus has been reached in the community of Archaeology that the first manmade or synthetic glasses, based on archaeological findings, originated in the Middle East during the 5000-3000's BC. By contrast, the manufacturing technology of pottery and ceramics were well developed in ancient China. The earliest pottery and ceramics dates back to the Shang Dynasty - the Zhou Dynasty (1700 BC-770 BC), while the earliest ancient glass artifacts unearthed in China dates back to the Western Han Dynasty. Utilizing the state-of-the art analytical and spectroscopic methods, the recent findings demonstrate that China had already developed its own glassmaking technology at latest since 200 BC. There are two schools of viewpoint on the origin of ancient Chinese glass. The more common one believes that ancient Chinese glass originated from the import of glassmaking technology from the West as a result of Sino-West trade exchanges in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-25 AD). The other scientifically demonstrates that homemade ancient Chinese glass with unique domestic formula containing both PbO and BaO were made as early as in the Pre-Qin Period or even the Warring States Period (770 BC-221 BC), known as Yousha or Faience.This English version of the previously published Chinese book entitled Development History of Ancient Chinese Glass Technology is for universities and research institutes where various research and educational activities of ancient glass and history are conducted. With 18 chapters, the scope of this book covers very detailed information on scientifically based findings of ancient Chinese glass development and imports and influence of foreign glass products as well as influence of the foreign glass manufacturing processes through the trade exchanges along the Silk Road(s).
Book Synopsis T{u2018}ien-kung K{u2018}ai-wu by : Yingxing Song
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Book Synopsis T'ien-kung k'ai-wu by : Song Ying-Sing
Download or read book T'ien-kung k'ai-wu written by Song Ying-Sing and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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