TY  - BOOK
AU  - Guan,Zengjian
AU  - Herrmann,Konrad
TI  - Kao Gong Ji: A Translation and Commentary: a The First Chinese Technology Encyclopaedia 
T2  - Technology and Change in History
SN  - 9789004416949
AV  - DS31 
U1  - 950 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Science
KW  - Technology
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004416949
ER  -