Colin A. Ronan

The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China

Volume 5

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This fifth volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China. No other country did more, both as to scale and skill, than China. This book opens with an account of the road system, which compared and unfavourably with that of the Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9780521467735
• ISBN-10: 052146773X
• Artikelnr.: 21274505

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of tables
Preface
1. Roads
2. Walls, and the Great Wall
3. Building technology
4. Bridges
5. Hydraulic engineering (I), control, construction and maintenance of waterways
6. Hydraulic engineering (II), water-raising machinery and the use of water as a power source
Bibliography
Table of Chinese dynasties
Index.