Explorations: War and Peace: Warfare: The divergence of systems of warfare east and west and their effects
Duration: 14 mins 45 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In five sequences, Simon Schaffer reflects in an English castle on the differences between warfare in China and the west. The triangle of reliable knowledge whereby new theoretical understanding is fed back into new technologies is discussed. The technology of gun manufacture was an essential pre-requisite for the steam engine and much other machinery; the cannon is a one shot pump or steam cylinder. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-11 16:36 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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