TY - BOOK ID - 61183578 TI - Kao gong ji : The world's oldest encyclopaedia of technologies AU - Guan, Zengjian AU - Herrmann, Konrad PY - 2020 SN - 9789004416901 9789004416949 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Technology KW - Science KW - History KW - S19/0140 KW - S19/0160 KW - Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Applied science KW - Arts, Useful KW - Science, Applied KW - Useful arts KW - Industrial arts KW - Material culture KW - China: Natural sciences--History of sciences KW - China: Natural sciences--Technology, inventions KW - Natural sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61183578 AB - "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"-- ER -