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100 1 _aShen, Kuo,
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245 1 0 _a夢溪筆談, Volume 17-21
246 1 _aMengxi Bi Tan, Volume 17-21 [1031-1095 A.D.]
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Pool_Essays
500 _aRelease date is 2005-01-01
508 _aProduced by Sally Yu
520 _a"夢溪筆談, Volume 17-21" by Kuo Shen is an encyclopedic work published in 1088 during China's Song dynasty. Written during the author's forced retirement, this remarkable compilation spans diverse fields including medicine, mathematics, astronomy, technology, and natural science. The work documents groundbreaking observations—from magnetic compass navigation to movable type printing, fossil discoveries to unidentified flying objects. Shen Kuo's polymathic curiosity illuminates medieval Chinese knowledge, capturing both systematic scientific inquiry and strange phenomena that challenged contemporary understanding of the natural world. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aChina -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Anecdotes
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7315
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