夢溪筆談 by Kuo Shen

"夢溪筆談" by Kuo Shen is an encyclopedic work published in 1088 during China's Song dynasty. Written during the author's forced retirement from government service, this wide-ranging collection explores topics from mathematics and astronomy to medicine and metallurgy. The work records groundbreaking observations about magnetic declination, compass navigation, and movable type printing. It also contains remarkable theories about fossils, climate change, and geological formations, alongside accounts of strange phenomena. Compiled on Shen's estate near modern Zhenjiang, these essays capture the extensive knowledge of one of China's great polymaths. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Shen, Kuo, 1031-1095
Title 夢溪筆談
Alternate Title Mengxi Bi Tan
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Pool_Essays
Credits Produced by Jun-Bi Lai
Language Chinese
LoC Class PL: Language and Literatures: Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
Subject China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Anecdotes
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EBook-No. 27292
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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