The Dream Pool Essays (or Dream Torrent Essays) was an extensive book written by the Chinese polymath and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095), published in...

headed by Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021–1085). In his Dream Pool Essays or Dream Torrent Essays (夢溪筆談; Mengxi Bitan) of 1088, Shen was the first to describe...

quarrels privately, without the court's interference. Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays argued against traditional Chinese beliefs in anatomy (such as his...

spread throughout East Asia. As recorded in 1088 by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, the Chinese artisan Bi Sheng invented an early form of movable type...

supernova which produced the Crab Nebula, Messier's M1. 1088 - In his Dream Pool Essays, the polymath Chinese scientist Shen Kuo (1031–1095) wrote of his...

made the world's first reference to the magnetic compass in his book Dream Pool Essays, along with encyclopedic documentation and inquiry into scientific...

through imperial examinations. Shen Kuo (1031–1095), author of the Dream Pool Essays, is a prime example, an inventor and pioneering figure who introduced...

from Youyang (酉陽雜俎 Yǒuyáng Zázǔ), by Duan Chengshi, Tang dynasty Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談 Mèngxī Bǐtán) by Shen Kuo, Song dynasty Notebooks from the Rong...

research. Shen Kuo, an 11th century Chinese scholar, estimated in his Dream Pool Essays that the number of possible board positions is around 10172. In more...

including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088; the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen (active...

movable-type method according to the method described by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, and printed his book Notes of The Jade Hall (《玉堂雜記》). The ceramic...

lost over the centuries, but magic mirrors were described in the Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo (1031–1095), who owned three of them as family heirlooms...

this invention. The invention of Bi Sheng was recorded only in the Dream Pool Essays by Chinese scholar-official and polymath Shen Kuo (1031–1095). The...

the first to describe the process of movable type printing in his Dream Pool Essays of 1088. He attributed the innovation of reusable fired clay characters...

de Bello Gallico (Commentaries on the Gallic War) by Julius Caesar Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo Epitoma rei militaris by Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus...

Dynasty scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) wrote in his Dream Pool Essays: At the beginning of the dynasty (c. +965) the two Che provinces (now...

a hundred years earlier, in 1088 AD, in his book Mengxibitan, or Dream Pool Essays. Thomas F. Glick; Steven John Livesey; Faith Wallis, eds. (2005)....

period. The statesman Shen Kuo is best known for his book known as the Dream Pool Essays (1088 AD). In it, he wrote of use for a drydock to repair boats, the...

heavier patterns of intoxication". As noted in Shen Kuo's 11th-century Dream Pool Essays, much of the socializing among the gentry concerned "drinking guests"...

the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays (published in 1088). February 28 – Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (d. 1150)...

father other than that he was of Fujian extraction. According to Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo, Lý Thái Tổ was "a man of Fujian extraction". According...

Vladimir Arsenyev made his first expedition to the area. In Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays, a passage called "Strange Happenings" contains a peculiar account...

point and the pinhole camera as separate radiation phenomena in his Dream Pool Essays (1088). By the late 15th century Leonardo da Vinci would be the first...

a "magnetized needle" in Chinese literature appears in 1088. The Dream Pool Essays, written by the Song dynasty polymath scientist Shen Kuo, contained...

did not invent the movable type but credited it to Bi Sheng in his Dream Pool Essays. The ceramic movable type was also mentioned by Kublai Khan's councilor...

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scholar-official and prolific polymath inventor, wrote a vivid passage in his Dream Pool Essays (1088) about an unidentified flying object. He recorded the testimony...

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described the prosperity of the Stork Tower back then in his book "Dream Pool Essays" (夢溪筆談): The three-story Stork Tower in Hezhong Prefecture, faces...

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