Needham, Joseph: Science and Civilization in China, Volume 4, Part II,
1965
This is the bible on our topic; some chinese may be necessary
to further follow HIS sources...
Strandh, Sigvard: The History of the Machine, 1989
Very nice book on history with many pictures; but be careful
with the 'facts' given...
Ambrose, Bernard: A Chinese South Pointing Chariot, Model Engineer 12
March 1999
Pretty pictures of a Lanchester type model
Burstall, Andrew F.: Simple Working Models of Historic Machines, 1968
Very short instructions for
a Lanchester type model (courtesy John Dickins)
Hill, Donald R.: A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval
Times, 1984
Rather complete survey of ancient technology. Useful to
put the technology behind the South Pointing Chariot in context
Wegener Sleeswyk, André: Reconstruction of the South-Pointing
Chariots of the Northern Sung Dynasty,
in: Chinese Science, Volume II, 1977
A new approach leads to
new reconstructions, quite apart from the specimen known before
Cousins, F. W.: A Mystery of Ancient China; Meccano Magazine September
1955
The starting point of many a modeller's efforts, see here
Ta'Bois, Noel C.: Chinese South-Seeking Chariots; Meccano Magazine October
1979
Some maths on Lanchester type models, see here
Lancester, George: The Yellow Emperor's South-Pointing Chariot; China
Society, London 1947
Online available here
The famous rollout of his model
Santander, M.: The Chinese South-Seeking Chariot: A simple mechanical
device for visualizing curvature and parallel transport; American Journal
of Physics, vol. 60, pp. 782-787, 1992
The SPC (or SSC as it's called here) used to demonstrate mathematical
concepts, plus a formal proof that it works.
Bird, A. C.: The Yellow Emperor's South-Pointing Chariot; Antiquarian
Horology, Vol. 3, pp. 152-154, 1961
History of the Lanchester variant
Giles, Dr. Herbert A.: Adversaria Sinica
This is a series of papers published over several years and
reprinted as book 1914. The interesting section for us is dated 1906.
I obtained a bound scan in India (ISBN 9789332880283).
Please find a OCR processed version of our chapter here
Hashimoto, Masukichi: The Origion of the Compass; Memoirs of the Research
Department of Toyo Bunko, Vol. 1, pp. 69-92, 1926
Very thorough index to all ancient Chinese sources with elaborate
reasoning regarding their trustworthiness.
Jingyan, Lu: Studies of the South-Pointing Chariot; Survey of the Past
80 Years; Chinese Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology,
pp. 267-278, 1996
Excellent summary of the re-discovery process
Hsieh, Long-Chang; Liu, Jen-Yu; Hsu, Meng-Hui: Systematic Method for
the Synthesis of South Pointing Chariot with planetary Gear Trains; Transactions
of the CSME, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 421-435, 1996
Interesting variations of the Lancester design with sound theoretical
construction rules.
Bagci, Cemil: The Elementary Theory for the Synthesis of Constant Direction
Pointing Chariots (or Rotational Neuralizers); Gear Technology Nov/Dec 1988
Another paper on the Lanchester Reconstruction; nice introduction
to different kinds of differentials.
