Mechanisms in Ancient Chinese Books with Illustrations
This book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient Chinese books. The historical, cultural and technical backgrounds of the mechanisms are explained, and various mechanisms
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Kuo-Hung Hsiao Hong-Sen Yan
Mechanisms in Ancient Chinese Books with Illustrations
History of Mechanism and Machine Science Volume 23
Series editor Marco Ceccarelli Cassino Italy
For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7481
Aims and Scope of the Series This book series aims to establish a well defined forum for Monographs and Proceedings on the History of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). The series publishes works that give an overview of the historical developments, from the earliest times up to and including the recent past, of MMS in all its technical aspects. This technical approach is an essential characteristic of the series. By discussing technical details and formulations and even reformulating those in terms of modern formalisms the possibility is created not only to track the historical technical developments but also to use past experiences in technical teaching and research today. In order to do so, the emphasis must be on technical aspects rather than a purely historical focus, although the latter has its place too. Furthermore, the series will consider the republication of out-of-print older works with English translation and comments. The book series is intended to collect technical views on historical developments of the broad field of MMS in a unique frame that can be seen in its totality as an Encyclopaedia of the History of MMS but with the additional purpose of archiving and teaching the History of MMS. Therefore the book series is intended not only for researchers of the History of Engineering but also for professionals and students who are interested in obtaining a clear perspective of the past for their future technical works. The books will be written in general by engineers but not only for engineers. Prospective authors and editors can contact the series editor, Professor M. Ceccarelli, about future publications within the series at: LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics DiMSAT—University of Cassino Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr) Italy email: [email protected] For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/7481
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Mechanisms in Ancient Chinese Books with Illustrations
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Kuo-Hung Hsiao Collections and Research Division National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung Taiwan
ISSN 1875-3442 ISBN 978-3-319-02008-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-02009-9
Hong-Sen Yan Department of Mechanical Engineering National Cheng Kung University Tainan Taiwan
ISSN 1875-3426 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-319-02009-9 (eBook)
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