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Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery
H.-S. Yan
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Description for Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery
Hardback. Combines mechanism design methodology with mechanical evolution and variation theory to set out how some ancient designs can be recreated. This title includes South pointing chariots, walking machines and the astronomical mechanical clock as illustrated examples. Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Num Pages: 309 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PDX; TGBN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 649.
Ancient China was outstanding in mechanical technology before the 15th century. Numerous ingenious machines were invented. However, due to incomplete documentation and loss of finished objects, most of the original machines cannot be verified and many of the inventions did not pass down to later generations. This book, based on the author’s research and teaching experiences over the last 20 years, is devoted to presenting an innovative methodology in the area of mechanical historiography for the systematic reconstruction design of ancient Chinese machines that have been lost to time. Its purpose is to generate all possible design concepts of lost ... Read more
Ancient China was outstanding in mechanical technology before the 15th century. Numerous ingenious machines were invented. However, due to incomplete documentation and loss of finished objects, most of the original machines cannot be verified and many of the inventions did not pass down to later generations. This book, based on the author’s research and teaching experiences over the last 20 years, is devoted to presenting an innovative methodology in the area of mechanical historiography for the systematic reconstruction design of ancient Chinese machines that have been lost to time. Its purpose is to generate all possible design concepts of lost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
Series
History of Mechanism and Machine Science
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402064593
SKU
V9781402064593
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Ref
99-15
About H.-S. Yan
Professor Hong-Sen YAN received his BS degree from National Cheng Kung University (Tianan, Taiwan) in 1973, MS degree from the University of Kentucky (Lexington, Kentucky, USA) in 1977, and PhD degree from Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana, USA) in 1980, all in mechanical engineering. He previously served as a mechanical engineer at China Technical Consultants Co. Ltd. (Taipei), an ... Read more
Reviews for Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery
From the reviews: “Always based on original sources, with a wealth of illustrations and translations of difficult Chinese classical texts, this outstanding book is particularly original. … a wide extant of difficult topics belonging to the history of technology has never been covered in such a systematic way and by using a unified methodology.” (J.-C. Martzloff, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. ... Read more