As a long-standing ancient civilization with a history of several thousand years,China has contributed a large number of technological inventions and scientific discoveries to human culture.Among the vast number of pr...As a long-standing ancient civilization with a history of several thousand years,China has contributed a large number of technological inventions and scientific discoveries to human culture.Among the vast number of printed books and other documents handed down to the present-day in China,there are many on science and technology.It is an essential task to collate these works,and thus lay a foundation for historical research into them,as well as make them more readily available to the outside world.展开更多
European firearms entered China from the sixteenth century and played a significant role in the warfare of the Ming and Qing dynasties.Some Chinese military books,which include contents on European firearms,appeared i...European firearms entered China from the sixteenth century and played a significant role in the warfare of the Ming and Qing dynasties.Some Chinese military books,which include contents on European firearms,appeared in the early seventeenth century and helped to expand the weapons’influence.Certain parts in these books concerning European artilleries are highly similar,indicating that they might have been extracted from a mutual source.Bing lu兵錄(Records of military art)is a typical example of such Chinese military treatises.Its illustrations and data demonstrate that Pratica manuale di arteglieria written by Luys Collado in 1586 is an important source of the Western knowledge in certain chapters of Bing lu.展开更多
文摘As a long-standing ancient civilization with a history of several thousand years,China has contributed a large number of technological inventions and scientific discoveries to human culture.Among the vast number of printed books and other documents handed down to the present-day in China,there are many on science and technology.It is an essential task to collate these works,and thus lay a foundation for historical research into them,as well as make them more readily available to the outside world.
文摘European firearms entered China from the sixteenth century and played a significant role in the warfare of the Ming and Qing dynasties.Some Chinese military books,which include contents on European firearms,appeared in the early seventeenth century and helped to expand the weapons’influence.Certain parts in these books concerning European artilleries are highly similar,indicating that they might have been extracted from a mutual source.Bing lu兵錄(Records of military art)is a typical example of such Chinese military treatises.Its illustrations and data demonstrate that Pratica manuale di arteglieria written by Luys Collado in 1586 is an important source of the Western knowledge in certain chapters of Bing lu.
