Oracle Bones, Stars, and Wheelbarrows: Ancient Chinese Science and Technology

by Frank Ross Jr., Frank Xavier Ross, Frank Ross

Book Overview

Discusses the achievements of the ancient Chinese in astronomy, medicine, science, and engineering, as well as such influential Chinese inventions as paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395320836
• ISBN13: 9780395320839
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

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Chinese achievements

Ross describes early Chinese achievements in astronomy, medicine, mathematics, and technology and shows how these ancient scientists anticipated by hundreds, even thousands, of years the discoveries of their counterparts in the West.