The Crafting of the 10,000 Things : Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China.
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 (1587-16...
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| Language: | English |
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2011.
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| Series: | Alexander von Humboldt in English.
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| Summary: | 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 firea. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226735856 0226735850 1283078457 9781283078450 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |