- sinologist, and
historian Joseph Needham called Song
Yingxing "The
Diderot of China." Song
Yingxing was born in
Yichun of
Jiangxi in 1587 to a
gentry family...
-
Exploitation of the
Works of
Nature was a
Chinese encyclopedia compiled by Song
Yingxing. It was
published in May 1637 with
funding provided by Song's
patron Tu...
- 1290–1333) with his Nong Shu of 1313; and Song
Yingxing (1587–1666) with his
Tiangong Kaiwu. Song
Yingxing was
termed the "Diderot of China" by British...
-
Biological Technology, Part 2, Agriculture. Taipei:
Caves Books Ltd. Song,
Yingxing,
translated with
preface by E-Tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun (1966). T'ien-Kung...
-
illustrations of trip
hammers in an
encyclopedia of 1637,
written by Song
Yingxing (1587–1666). The
Chinese use of the cam
remained confined to the horizontal...
-
puddling process of
smelting iron ore to make
wrought iron from pig iron,
illustrated in the
Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia by Song
Yingxing,
published in 1637....
- a
later model shown in Ming
Chinese scientist and
encyclopedist Song
Yingxing's (1587–1666)
encyclopedia of 1637
shows the ox
bladder replaced with a...
-
works of
contemporaneous authors such as Xu Guangqi, Xu Xiake, and Song
Yingxing were
often technical and encyclopedic, the most
striking literary development...
-
panicled millet, and
glutinous millet. The Ming
dynasty encyclopedist Song
Yingxing noted that rice was not
counted among the five
grains from the time of...
- Pei
Wenzhong Pu
Zhelong Ren Mei'e Shao
Xianghua Shen Kuo Shi
Yafeng Song
Yingxing Su Song Sun
Jiadong Sun
Laiyan Sun
Jinliang Tan
Jiazhen Tong
Dizhou Tu...
