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Kao Gong Ji: The World's Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies (2020)

Herrmann, Konrad (Editor)
Guan, Zengjian (Editor)

Brill

ISBN: 9789004416901

Publication Date: 2020
Edition Details: Book series: Technology and Change in History, no. 17
Physical Details: xvi + 222
Language: English

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In Kao Gong Ji: The World’s Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies, Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offer an English translation and commentary of the first technological encyclopaedia in China. This work came into being around the 5th century C.E. and contains descriptions of thirty technologies used at the time. Most prominent are bronze casting, the manufacture of carriages and weapons, a metrological standard, the making of musical instruments, and the planning of cities. The technologies, including the manufacturing process and quality assurance, are based on standardization and modularization. In several commentaries, the editors show to which degree the descriptions of Kao Gong Ji correspond to archaeological findings.

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Review Jianjun Mei (April 2021) Review of "Kao Gong Ji: The World's Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies". Technology and Culture (pp. 591-593). unapi

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