Crafting of the 10,000 Things - Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China

Informationen zum Autor Dagmar Schafer is head of the Independent Research Group on Chinese Technology at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Klappentext The last decades of the Ming dynasty! though plagued by chaos and destruction! saw major advances in knowledge and technology. This title sheds light on the development of scientific thinking in China! the purpose of technical writing! and its role in and effects on Chinese history. Zusammenfassung The last decades of the Ming dynasty! though plagued by chaos and destruction! saw major advances in knowledge and technology. This title sheds light on the development of scientific thinking in China! the purpose of technical writing! and its role in and effects on Chinese history.

Product details

• Authors: Dagmar Schafer, Dagmar Schäfer, Schafer Dagmar
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2011
• EAN: 9780226735849
• ISBN: 978-0-226-73584-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Asia / China, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Science, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, History of engineering and technology, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of engineering & technology, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700