LEADER 04307nam 22006851 450 001 9910781677503321 005 20161110094158.0 010 $a1-350-01911-9 010 $a1-350-01912-7 010 $a1-283-24587-6 010 $a9786613245878 010 $a1-4411-7708-6 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350019126 035 $a(CKB)2550000000044723 035 $a(EBL)762982 035 $a(OCoLC)767855430 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000523185 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12233638 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000523185 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10542192 035 $a(PQKB)10897686 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC762982 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL762982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10495168 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL324587 035 $a(OCoLC)1162860259 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09260159 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003143 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3003143 035 $a(OCoLC)928191585 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000044723 100 $a20161128d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aHistory of technology$hVolume twenty-nine, 2009 /$fedited by Ian Inkster 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a[London] :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (230 p.) 225 0 $aHistory of technology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-3611-8 327 $a'Introduction to volume 29' / Ian Inkster. Special Issue: Kent Deng and Jerry Liu ed., Chinese Technological History: The Great Divergence -- 'Editorial Introduction' / Deng and Liu -- 'The Needham Question Updated: a Historiographical Survey and Elaboration' / Patrick K. O'Brien -- 'Cultural Logics for the Regime of Useful Knowledge during the Ming and early Qing China c. 1400-1700' / Jerry C.Y. Liu -- 'China and Science on the Eve of the 'Great Divergence' 1600-1800: A review of recent revisionist scholarship in Western languages' / Harriet T. Zurndorfer -- 'Movers and Shakers of Knowledge in China during the Ming-Qing Period' / Kent Deng. 327 $aSpecial Issue : Lissa Roberts and Ian Inkster ed., Mindful Hand. 'Introduction' / Lissa Roberts -- 'From darkness into light: The transformation of rock crystal into an object of adornment and revelation' / Alette Fleischer -- 'The Mindful Hands of Peasants: Construction of an Eight-Lock Staircase at Fonseranes, 1678-1679' / Chandra Mukerji -- 'Enlightenment in Russian Hands: Instruments, Inventions, and Ivan Petrovich Kulibin in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg' / Simon Werrett -- 'The mindful hand goes to Japan. Dutch-Japanese trade in the second half of the eighteenth century' / Lissa Roberts -- 'Conclusions' / Ian Inkster. 330 $a"The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 410 0$aHistory of Technology 517 3 $aHistory of technology. 606 $aTechnology$xHistory 606 $2Technology: general issues 615 0$aTechnology$xHistory. 676 $a609 702 $aInkster$b Ian 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781677503321 996 $aHistory of technology$956332 997 $aUNINA