The Tiangong Kaiwu (天工開物), or The Exploitation of the Works of Nature was a Chinese encyclopedia compiled by Song Yingxing. It was published in May 1637...
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whole Shijiazhuang Tiangong, football (soccer) club for Shijiazhuang, Hebei Tiangong International, steel company Tiangong Kaiwu, encyclopedia written...
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lived during the late Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). He was the author of Tiangong Kaiwu, an encyclopedia that covered a wide variety of technical subjects,...
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dynasty has described the inkmaking process from pine soot in his work Tiangong Kaiwu. From the Song dynasty onwards, lampblack also became a favored pigment...
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In 1637, Mr. Song Yingxing compiled a Chinese encyclopedia called Tiangong Kaiwu (天工開物). Chapter 18 of this collection mentioned about the pearls and...
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Woodcuts depicting the five seminal steps in ancient Chinese papermaking. From the 1637 Tiangong Kaiwu of the Ming dynasty....
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noted in scroll ten of yunlu manchao (雲麓漫鈔) and the "ink" chapter of tiangong kaiwu (天工開物), the notable Ming dynasty encyclopedia by Song Yingxing (宋應星)...
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1290–1333) with his Nong Shu of 1313; and Song Yingxing (1587–1666) with his Tiangong Kaiwu. Song Yingxing was termed the "Diderot of China" by British historian...
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inksticks for collectors. Image from the 17th-century technical document Tiangong Kaiwu (天工開物-松烟制墨法) detailing how pine is burned in a furnace at one end and...
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salt marshes" (Persian: نمک شوره چينی namak shūra chīnī).: 335 The Tiangong Kaiwu, published in the 17th century by members of the Qing dynasty, detailed...
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