- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Chinese double-tube seed drill,
published by Song
Yingxing in the
Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of 1637...
-
Casting bronze ding-tripods, from the
Chinese Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of Song
Yingxing,
published in 1637....
-
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....
-
panicled millet, and
glutinous millet. The Ming
dynasty encyclopedist Song
Yingxing (1587–1666)
noted that rice was not
counted amongst the five
grains from...
- 1038/s41467-021-22245-6. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 8024266. PMID 33824307. Song
Yingxing (1637): The
Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia. Verhoeven, J.D. (1975) Fundamentals...
