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Author : Robert Greenberger
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404205586
Describes the technology used by the ancient Chinese to help with agriculture, communication, calculations, transportation, medicine, and warfare.
Author : Yinke Deng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521186926
Ancient Chinese Inventions provides an illustrated introduction to the numerous scientific and technological inventions to which China can lay claim.
Author : Charlie Samuels
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433996276
The ingenuity of China has been evident in their technology for thousands of years. People in ancient China are responsible for many significant breakthroughs, including gunpowder, paper, and the compass. Readers will be introduced to the ancient beginnings of China’s technological dominance through some of their greatest achievements in farming, astronomy, and metalworking, while a timeline guides them through ancient Chinese history. Vivid photographs and historical images augment information about the building of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, among other technological advances. Sidebars accompanying each section add even more detail to the informative social studies and science content. Whether interested in the development of money or early writing, readers will find the advances of ancient China captivating.
Author : Jason Greenling
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502622365
Many millennia ago, Ancient China was a leader of technological development. It is responsible for producing some of the worlds first paper, as well as the art of calligraphy. That is not all, however. This book delves into the history of Ancient China and describes other great innovations for which the culture is known.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003967747
"China's achievements in science and technology are among the most impressive aspects of her rich cultural past. Before the 15th century, her scientific developments often far surpassed those of the West. Shipbuilding, mathematics, alchemy, city planning, tea growing, carriage building and earthquake forecasting are just a few of the 47 areas explored here."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811229787
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).
Author : Jun Wenren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136267871
This book presents the first translation into English of the full text of the Kaogong ji. This classic work, described by the great scholar of the history of Chinese science and technology Joseph Needham as "the most important document for the study of ancient Chinese technology", dates from the fifth century BC and forms part of the Zhouli (The Rites of the Zhou Dynasty), one of the great Confucian classics. The text itself describes the techniques of working and the technologies used by over twenty different kinds of craftsmen and artificers, such as metal workers, chariot makers, weapon makers, music instrument makers, potters and master builders. This edition, besides providing the full text in English, also provides a substantial introduction and other supporting explanatory material, over one hundred illustrations of ancient Chinese artefacts, and the original Chinese text itself.
Author : Lindsey Lowe
Publisher : Discovering Ancient Technology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502669331
Some of the most important technological advancements of the ancient world happened in China. The decimal system, moveable type for printing, and the umbrella were first used by the ancient Chinese. Readers discover these and other fun facts about technology in ancient China with the help of main text and sidebars that supplement both social studies and STEM curriculum topics. Photographs and illustrations show many of these scientific and engineering feats in remarkable detail--from the Great Wall to the unique boats known as junks. Readers are sure to be fascinated by the ancient Chinese inventions we still use today.
Author : Yinke Deng,邓荫柯
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Inventions
ISBN : 7508516893
Author : Robert Snedden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 0749680598
This new series looks at civilizations in the ancient and medieval worlds, and explains the technological advances that were made in those times
Author : Professor Beaver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0228228654
Despite being in an era that's distant, ancient China set into motion several societal practices and values. Other than that, it also gave birth to inventions and pushed forward a lot of new technology and engineering practices that continue to be useful today. This book will focus only on the science and technology in ancient China. Grab a copy of this book today!
Author : Paul Clarence Challen,Paul Challen
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778720373
Along China's Yellow River, a mighty and technologically advanced civilization grew and flourished for thousands of years without any contact from the rest of the world. Life in Ancient China explores the daily lives of early the Chinese people, profiles the great dynasties that ruled China over the centuries, and introduces important religious and philosophical contributions, such as Confucianism, Daosim, and Buddhism. Enduring Chinese innovations, such as writing, papermaking, and The Great Wall are also featured.
Author : Edward L. Shaughnessy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 0760780552
Even today the economic powerhouse of modern China takes strength and nourishment from its legacy of antiquity. Ancient China illuminates this venerable heritage with unprecedented scholarship and vividness.
Author : Fan Dainian,Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401587174
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.
Author : Yuk Hui
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780995455009
A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one—originally Greek—type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics.