ISBN: 9780486295930
Autore:
Sung Ying-hsing
titolo alternativo:
Chinese Technology in the Seventeenth Century: T'ien-kung K'ai-wu
Casa editrice: Dover Publications
data di pubblicazione: 1997
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Lingua:
English
Formato: Paperback
Prezzo: USD 14.95
Numero di pagine: 384
T'ien-kung K'ai-wu
Sung Ying-hsing
Sinossi
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.
