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History of Technology Volume 29

By Ian Inkster

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History of Technology Volume 29

By Ian Inkster

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The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
230
Release Date:
2009-12-22
Publication Date:
2009-11-01
Publisher:
Continnuum-3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1441136118
ISBN13:
9781441136114
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
6
Maximum Reading Age:
8
Weight:
514 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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