Further Reading

If You want to dig deeper into the matter of South Pointing Chariots, the following list may give You some hints. But do not expect to find every book in your local library...

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.

Garner, H. D.: The Mechanism of China's South-Pointing Carriage; Navigation (Journal of the Institute of Navigation) Vol 40, No 1, Spring 1993
   Freestype design of a chariot  with two differentials, one of them used as Reversing Gear.