 | 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... 30 KB (4,435 words) - 01:15, 29 February 2024 |
 | Shen Kuo (section Dream Pool Essays) 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... 100 KB (12,176 words) - 06:52, 21 March 2024 |
 | 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... 52 KB (6,640 words) - 18:21, 2 May 2024 |
 | made the world's first reference to the magnetic compass in his book Dream Pool Essays, along with encyclopedic documentation and inquiry into scientific... 58 KB (7,397 words) - 23:45, 30 April 2024 |
 | quarrels privately, without the court's interference. Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays argued against traditional Chinese beliefs in anatomy (such as his... 115 KB (12,854 words) - 17:42, 20 April 2024 |
 | through imperial examinations. Shen Kuo (1031–1095), author of the Dream Pool Essays, is a prime example, an inventor and pioneering figure who introduced... 78 KB (9,688 words) - 18:03, 20 February 2024 |
 | 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... 47 KB (5,871 words) - 13:04, 4 May 2024 |
 | including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031–1095) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088; the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen (active... 43 KB (5,371 words) - 15:34, 29 April 2024 |
 | 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... 17 KB (1,847 words) - 00:52, 28 August 2023 |
 | 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... 18 KB (1,714 words) - 18:07, 21 March 2024 |
 | 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... 269 KB (34,922 words) - 05:55, 24 April 2024 |
 | 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... 5 KB (617 words) - 21:41, 25 April 2024 |
 | 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... 42 KB (3,953 words) - 17:50, 21 April 2024 |
 | 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... 120 KB (15,716 words) - 18:22, 2 May 2024 |
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... 3 KB (376 words) - 20:10, 26 November 2023 |
 | 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... 20 KB (2,639 words) - 23:59, 25 March 2024 |
 | scientist Shen Kuo using the description found in his famous book Dream Pool Essays. Due to the chemical characteristics of petroleum that it continues... 4 KB (552 words) - 08:30, 20 September 2022 |
| 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... 64 KB (8,198 words) - 21:19, 3 May 2024 |
 | Chicago Press. p. 24. ISBN 0-226-73103-0. Shen Kuo,Mengxi Bitan (梦溪笔谈; Dream Pool Essays) (1088) Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China:... 16 KB (1,854 words) - 19:08, 20 November 2023 |
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... 189 KB (20,017 words) - 00:29, 1 May 2024 |
 | specific seashell fossil with his own poem engraved on it. In his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088, Song dynasty Chinese scholar-official Shen Kuo... 104 KB (10,815 words) - 18:58, 26 April 2024 |
Proloy Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Israeli book publishing company Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談; Mengxi Bitan), Chinese extensive book Xindian metro station... 920 bytes (134 words) - 17:09, 21 August 2023 |
 | led to the development of the navigational compass, as described in Dream Pool Essays in 1088. By the 12th to 13th centuries AD, magnetic compasses were... 61 KB (7,729 words) - 18:37, 25 April 2024 |
 | 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"... 24 KB (2,684 words) - 16:00, 9 February 2024 |
 | 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... 7 KB (882 words) - 09:23, 12 March 2024 |
 | 11th-century Chinese scientist Shen Kuo was the first person to write—in the Dream Pool Essays—of the magnetic needle compass and that it improved the accuracy of... 48 KB (6,219 words) - 12:06, 7 April 2024 |
 | the opening ceremony. China portal History portal Technology portal Dream Pool Essays History of science and technology in China List of Chinese inventions... 33 KB (3,760 words) - 17:33, 23 April 2024 |
 | 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)... 7 KB (746 words) - 12:54, 1 September 2022 |
 | a "magnetized needle" in Chinese literature appears in 1088. The Dream Pool Essays, written by the Song dynasty polymath scientist Shen Kuo, contained... 56 KB (7,310 words) - 01:33, 25 March 2024 |
 | scholars who were interested in pinhole images. In his 1088 book, Dream Pool Essays, the Song dynasty Chinese scientist Shen Kuo (1031–1095) compared... 77 KB (8,484 words) - 07:07, 4 May 2024 |