Chinese science: a double-action piston box bellows (China) What are some Chinese inventions? Chinese scientists started inventing a lot of new things around 500 BC, during the Warring States period. [...]
Chinese numbers: number rods Chinese numbers People in China were using written numbers by about 1500 BC, in the Shang Dynasty. This is about two thousand years later than people began [...]
Nine Chapters: How to figure out the area of an isosceles triangle. A math textbook from Han Dynasty China The earliest Chinese mathematical textbook is called the Nine Chapters. It [...]
