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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

Hidden Forces

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The Importance of Precision in Chinese History

The book is both a story about precision, but it's also an homage to imprecision. The structure of the book is not simply a travelogue, but looking at the river as a vehicle for exploring Chinese history. I wanted particularly in the later stages when you're looking at really, really precise devices,. I wanted to say, is this what we really want? And there's no straight lines in landscape and yet landscape is very beautiful.

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