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Kao Gong Ji : the world's oldest encyclopaedia of technologies / translated and commented by Zengjian Guan, Konrad Herrmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Technology and change in history ; 17.
- Technology and change in history ; 17
- Standardized Title:
- Kao gong ji (Brill Academic Publishers)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--China--History--To 1500.
- Science.
- Technology--China--History--To 1500.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Language Note:
- English, German and Chinese; commentary in English.
- Summary:
- In Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies , Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offer an English translation and commentary of the first technological encyclopaedia in China. This work came into being around the 5th century C.E. and contains descriptions of thirty technologies used at the time. Most prominent are bronze casting, the manufacture of carriages and weapons, a metrological standard, the making of musical instruments, and the planning of cities. The technologies, including the manufacturing process and quality assurance, are based on standardization and modularization. In several commentaries, the editors show to which degree the descriptions of Kao Gong Ji correspond to archaeological findings.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Contains:
- Container of: Kao gong ji.
- Container of: Kao gong ji. English.
- Container of: Kao gong ji. German.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-41694-3
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004416949 DOI
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