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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schäfer, Dagmar
Otros Autores: Schaf̈er, Dagmar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Colección:Alexander von Humboldt in English.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (353 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-326) and index.
ISBN:9780226735856
0226735850
1283078457
9781283078450
9786613078452
661307845X