The chinese were printing books for centuries with woodblocks but they looked down on them as inferior to manuscripts... China makes no sense to me- as soon as that tech hit Europe it exploded into the Industrial Revolution.
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Replying to @Logo_Daedalus
don't forget getting nowhere with gunpowder and banning international sailing right after Zheng He got home
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Replying to @380kmh @Logo_Daedalus
one big difference was that in west geometry / trig was always part of prestige education, in China it was menial (like being a copyist)
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