01672cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000260011324500170013924600180015626400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000840036050000310044450800270047552007080050253400450121065300600125585600430131527292UtSlPG20260610133625.0mcr n260607r2008||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7azh2iso639-1 4aPL1 aShen, Kuo,d1031-109510a夢溪筆談1 aMengxi Bi Tan 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2008  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Pool_Essays  aRelease date is 2008-11-18  aProduced by Jun-Bi Lai  a"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.)  nOriginal publication data not identified  aChina -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Anecdotes40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27292