Titlebook: Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery; Hong-Sen Yan Book 2007 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 chinese ancient

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Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery978-1-4020-6460-9Series ISSN 1875-3442 Series E-ISSN 1875-3426

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South-pointing Chariots,outstretched arm that continuously pointed south no matter which way the chariot turned. This device is called the south-pointing chariot and is found in literary records but without surviving hardware. However, various reconstructions of its designs have existed in past years.

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Book 2007des a logical tool for historians in ancient mechanical engineering and techn- ogy to further identify the possible original designs according to proven historical archives. However, this work will not deal with the credibility of historical literary works. It supposes that the lost machines existed