Dream Pool Essays
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The Dream Pool Essays was an extensive book written by the Chinese polymath and statesman Shen Kuo, published in 1088 during the Song dynasty. Shen compiled this encyclopedic work while living in forc
Shen Kuo (沈括) (1031–1095 AD)
Bi Sheng
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Bi Sheng was a Chinese artisan and engineer during the Song dynasty, who invented the world's first movable type. Bi's system used fired clay tiles, one for each Chinese character, and was invented be
Dream Pool Essays
…was also the first to record the use of a compass for navigation, the first to describe the invention of movable type printing by contemporary artisan Bi Sheng, and the first in China to describe a drydock for repairing boats out of water. Shen Kuo was a renowned government official and military general during…
Bi Sheng and his invention at the China Printing Museum in Beijing