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- The Lunheng, also known by numerous English translations, is a wide-ranging Chinese classic text by Wang Chong (27 – c. 100). First published in 80, it...
- honorific alternate with shen "spirit; god; deity" Sanchong, which the Lunheng (see below) used to mean "intestinal parasites", is normally translated...
- spare the innocent. The account appears in Wang Chong, Lunheng (80 AD). In the same work (Lunheng), the legend is prefaced the remark that public offices...
- needle's attraction appears in a work composed between 20 and 100 AD, the Lunheng (Balanced Inquiries): "A lodestone attracts a needle." In the 2nd century...
- dynasty. The earliest such record is found in Wang Chong's first-century Lunheng. There are several legends related to the Tai Sui,[citation needed] usually...
- materialistic explanation of the origin of the universe. His main work was the Lunheng (論衡, "Critical Essays"). This book contained many theories involving early...
- frivolity and licence." The skeptical philosopher Wang Chong's c. 80 CE Lunheng (Balanced Discourses) has a p****age contrasting genuine gemstones found...
- Chong (27–100 AD) accurately described the water cycle of Earth in his Lunheng but was dismissed by his contemporaries. Up to the time of the Renaissance...
- with fire [kindled from] cudrania branches (5.5) Wang Chong's (c. 80 CE) Lunheng mentions the fangzhu 方諸 in two chapters (46, 47), and the yangsui in five...
- this name.") maintained a "possible tributary relationship" with Yan. The Lunheng (論衡; 'Discourses Weighed in the Balance') is a compendium of essays written...