Essay Review ID: CBB090430063

Essay Review of Twenty-Six Volumes of History of Science and Technology in China (October 2022)

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This article reviews twenty-six volumes of History of Science and Technology in China, a collaborative scholarly work published from 1998 to 2011. The review focuses on the volumes dealing with the history of technology: Mining and Metallurgy, Machinery, and Transportation. Clearly the series has impacted Chinese literature on the history of technology in China, being the first work to comprehensively and systematically study and expound the history of science and technology in ancient China from the perspective of Chinese scholars.

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Authors & Contributors
Xuetao Li
Pierangelo Melgara
Zhang, Baichun
Lu, Jiaxi
Blomgren, Stig
Tholander, Erik
Journals
Technology and Culture
Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Acta Historica Leopoldina
Publishers
Pavia University Press
Springer
Concepts
History of technology, as a discipline
History of science, as a discipline
Machines
Metallurgy
Transportation
Engineering
People
Needham, Joseph
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Ancient
Places
China
Italy
Sweden
Greece
Germany
Rome (Italy)
Institutions
International Congress of the History of Science
American Institute of Physics
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