Age of DiscoveryTechnology
Tiangong Kaiwu
1637Notable
Song Yingxing publishes The Exploitation of the Works of Nature, an illustrated encyclopedia of crafts. It documents Chinese techniques for farming, textiles, metalworking and papermaking.
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