Wonderful Machines of the Far West, Vol. 1
Latin
1627
156 pages
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The work 'Wonderful Machines of the Far West' (Yuanxi Qiqi Tushuo Luzui 遠西奇器圖說錄最), co-authored by Johann Schreck (Terrentius) and Wang Zheng, is a seminal 17th-century text on Western mechanics introduced to China. Extensive searches across scholarly catalogs (including local, LOC, and OpenAlex) yielded no evidence of a complete or partial English translation of this work. While the work is frequently discussed in academic literature regarding the history of science in China, no English translation exists.
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This text documents the moment where Western mechanics met the Confucian state. You will discover how simple levers and geometry allowed seventeenth-century engineers to lift massive weights with ease.
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