TY  - BOOK
AU  - Song,Yingxing
TI  - 天工開物
AV  - Q 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Science -- China -- History
KW  - Technology -- China -- History
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_Kaiwu; Release date is 2008-05-01; Produced by Kai Hong Fang; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "天工開物" by Yingxing Song is a Chinese encyclopedia published in 1637. This groundbreaking work documents technical processes and industries across agriculture, manufacturing, and maritime technology. Breaking from tradition, Song rarely references earlier texts, instead writing from apparent first-hand observation. The encyclopedia features an unprecedented number of detailed illustrations depicting production methods, from brick-making and grain cultivation to waterwheel systems and nautical engineering. Though suppressed in China during the Qing dynasty, copies survived in Japan. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25273
ER  -