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The Curve of Cultural Interchange Between China and the West

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1952

References

1 Schove, D. Justin, Chinese Raininess Through the Centuries. Meterological Magazine, London, 78, 1948, p. 14.Google Scholar

2 Professor Dubs has pointed out that cavalry in the modern sense—horsemen who can use a sword or lance—arose only after the invention of the stirrup. Cf. K. A. Wittfogel and C. S. Feng, History of Chinese Society: Liao pp. 505–507.

3 ProfessorDubs, H. H.. The Beginnings of Alchemy. Isis 38, 1947, 6286.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Professor Goodrich has pointed out that a Chinese-made glass (containing barium) is widely distributed in the fifth-third centuries B.C. in North China. See Bull. Mus. Far Eastern Antiq. No. 10, 1938, 1–64. Iron appears to have been developed in the Wu (Soochow) area of N. E. China probably about the sixth-fifth centuries B.C.