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Historical perspectives on Chinese metallurgy

Joseph Needham: science and civilisation in China, volume 5, chemistry and chemical technology, part 11: ferrous metallurgy, Donald B. Wagner (ed), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008, 544 pp, £120.00 HB

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  1. Sir Georg Staunton, Lord George Macartney (Earl), Sir Erasmus Gower, An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China: taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney… Sir Erasmus Gower… and of other gentlemen in the several departments of the embassy (Printed for R. Campbell by J. Bioren 1799), Vol. 1–2, 1:131.

  2. Charles K. Hyde, Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700–1870 (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1977); Thomas S. Ashton, Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution (Modern Revivals in Economic and Social History) (Manchester: Manchester University Press 1951).

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Schäfer, D. Historical perspectives on Chinese metallurgy. Metascience 19, 479–482 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-010-9395-2

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