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  • Brush Talks from Dream Brook  

    Brush Talks from Dream Brook   by Shen, Kuo; Hong, Wang; Zhao, Zheng;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Paths International Ltd
    • Date of Publication 30 November 2011
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781844641734
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages530 pages
    • Size 254x177x31 mm
    • Weight 333 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Offers a complete English language version of Shen Kuo's seminal Brush Talks From Dream Brook. Highly valued by scholars for its scientific and technological coverage, this book is probably the most important source text for technological advances and the organisation of knowledge in China's golden age, the Song dynasty.

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    Long description:

    This is the first complete English language version of Shen Kuo&&&8217;s seminal Brush Talks From Dream Brook, published outside China. Highly valued by scholars for its scientific and technological coverage, this encyclopaedic book is probably the most important source text for technological advances and the organization of knowledge in China&&&8217;s golden age, the Song dynasty (960-1279).

    Author Shen Kuo is the most famous writer in China&&&8217;s scientific history. The significance of Brush Talks From Dream Brook have been thoroughly researched by scholars such as Fu Daiwie but it has not yet gained the recognition it deserves in Western studies on the history of science and technology.

    Written between 1086 and 1093 in note style, it covers astronomy, mathematics, geography, physics, biology, medicine, military, literary, history, archaeology and music. Now translated into English and available outside China for the very first time, it&&&8217;s rightly recognised as a masterpiece in the history of Chinese scientific and technological development.

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