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What industrial designs were published in the Nong Shu?
List the major European inventions that had been previously published in the Nong Shu
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农书 Nung Shu, by王祯 Wang Zhen.
Some pictures of “Nung Shu” can be found in website below:
http://tupian.hudong.com/s/%E5%86%9C%E4%B9%A6/xgtupian/1/0
(click on the pictures, those that you can see the word王祯农书is about the book.)
Some major European inventions that had been previously published in the Nong Shu are:
revolving-type table printing press;
Chinese bucket pump;
Chinese animal-powered chain pump;
vertical waterwheel;
Chinese chain pump;
production of silk thread, dyeing, weaving of fine silk cloth, winding silk threads onto bobbins;
Chinese irrigation design;
Chinse lock and sluice gates;
Chinese canal and lock-building techniques;
blast furnace;
water powered vertical and horizontal rice grinding mills
Some pictures of “Nung Shu” can be found in website below:
http://tupian.hudong.com/s/%E5%86%9C%E4%B9%A6/xgtupian/1/0
(click on the pictures, those that you can see the word王祯农书is about the book.)
Some major European inventions that had been previously published in the Nong Shu are:
revolving-type table printing press;
Chinese bucket pump;
Chinese animal-powered chain pump;
vertical waterwheel;
Chinese chain pump;
production of silk thread, dyeing, weaving of fine silk cloth, winding silk threads onto bobbins;
Chinese irrigation design;
Chinse lock and sluice gates;
Chinese canal and lock-building techniques;
blast furnace;
water powered vertical and horizontal rice grinding mills
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book: 1434 by Galvin Menzies
website.
book: 1434 by Galvin Menzies
website.
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