夢溪筆談, Volume 22-26 by Kuo Shen
"夢溪筆談, Volume 22-26" by Kuo Shen is an encyclopedic work published in 1088 during China's Song dynasty. Written during the author's forced retirement, this collection spans diverse fields including medicine, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, and natural history. The work documents groundbreaking observations: the first recorded use of a compass for navigation, descriptions of movable type printing, and theories about magnetic declination. It also explores geological phenomena through fossil discoveries, proposes early ideas about
climate change, and records strange phenomena including unidentified objects in the sky. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shen, Kuo, 1031-1095 |
|---|---|
| Title | 夢溪筆談, Volume 22-26 |
| Alternate Title | Mengxi Bi Tan, Volume 22-26 [1031-1095 A.D.] |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Pool_Essays |
| Credits | Produced by Sally Yo |
| Language | Chinese |
| LoC Class | PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| Subject | China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Anecdotes |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 7316 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 2005 |
| Most Recently Updated | Dec 30, 2020 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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