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100 1 _aShen, Kuo,
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245 1 0 _a夢溪筆談, Volume 22-26
246 1 _aMengxi Bi Tan, Volume 22-26 [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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_2rdamedia
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 Yo
520 _a"夢溪筆談, Volume 22-26" by Kuo Shen is an encyclopedic work published in 1088 during China's Song dynasty. Written during the author's forced retirement, this collection spans diverse fields including medicine, astronomy, mathematics, metallurgy, and natural history. The work documents groundbreaking observations: the first recorded use of a compass for navigation, descriptions of movable type printing, and theories about magnetic declination. It also explores geological phenomena through fossil discoveries, proposes early ideas about climate change, and records strange phenomena including unidentified objects in the sky. (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/7316
999 _c49307
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