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From this chapter, we are going to talk about the ancient Chinese physics, especially those major successes achieved in physics by the Chinese in ancient times.
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Yang, Zhenning. On research in physics and teaching. Collected Papers of Yang Zhenning. Shanghai: Huadong University Press, 1998:508.
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The following three are secondary citations from Wang Zhendong’s “Mechanism and Practice”. 2006:83–85.
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In the books History of Physics in China · History of Optics, History of Physics in China · History of Ancient Physics, History of Science in China · Physics Volume, etc. the author used the inscriptions on the back of the self-shot photo of Zou Boqi to deduce that Zou succeeded with glass-plate photography between 1863 and 1866. This might be imprecise, because we have no way of ensuring that this is the first photo shot by Zuo.
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Dai, N. (2015). Physics. In: Lu, Y. (eds) A History of Chinese Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44257-9_5
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