The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge And Technology In Seventeenth-Century China

by Dagmar Schäfer (Author)

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  2015

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  The last decades of the Ming dynasty saw a significant increase in 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. The author probes this text to focus on the development of scientific thinking in China.