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by Colin a. Ronan

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Digesting the main sections of Volume IV of Dr. Needham's magnum opus, this book is concerned with the immense advances made in early and medieval China in mechanical engineering. It discusses in simple but eminently readable terms the status of engineers, their tools and materials, then basic mechanical principles, followed by machinery powered by animals, man and even by steam, vehicles for land transport, six centuries of hidden clockwork, windmills and aeronautics. Since China was far ahead of the West in ancient and medieval times, this volume helps make clear the immense debt owed by Western civilization to the Chinese. Such debts included the important mechanical principles of transforming rotary motion to a to-and-fro motion of a crank and vice-versa. They invented the first efficient harness for horses and the first mechanical clocks.

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Mechanical engineering in China reached a very high stage of development at a time when Western engineering was still in a comparatively primitive state.

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  • Title The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 4
  • Author Colin a. Ronan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Abridged
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1994-06-24
  • Abridged Yes
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Abridged, Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780521338738 / 0521338735
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 5.6 x 0.83 in (23.01 x 14.22 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Category History - General History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951
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