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- Yongle Encyclopedia. The Yongle Encyclopedia (Traditional Chinese: 永樂大典; Simplified Chinese: 永乐大典; pinyin: Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn; literally “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era”) was a Chinese compilation commissioned by the Chinese Ming Dynasty Emperor Yongle, in 1403. More than 2,169 scholars worked on the transcription.
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- Christopher Latham Sholes (1819-1890) Sholes was a U.S. mechanical engineer who invented the first practical modern typewriter, patented in 1868. Sholes invented the typewriter with partners S. W. Soule and G. Glidden, that was manufactured (by Remington Arms Company) in 1873. Christopher Latham Sholes.
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- 1 Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901: Bye-words: a collection of tales, new and old / (London: Macmillan, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust). 2  Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901: Bye-words; a collection of tales, new and old, by Charlotte M. Yonge ...
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Hebei , China Anji Bridge The Anji bridge influenced the design of later Chinese bridge structures, such as the similar Yongtong Bridge near Zhaoxian in Hebei. The Yongtong Bridge is a 26 m long stone segmental-arch bridge built in 1130 by the Song structural engineer Pou Qianer.Needham, Joseph.
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Ancient Chinese Sundials This chapter studies three sundials (guiyi 晷仪) from the Qin and Han dynasties, the shorter shadow plane sundial (duanying ping yi 短影平仪) invented by Yuan Chong in the Sui Dynasty, and the sundial chart (guiyingtu 晷影图) invented by Zeng Minxing in the Southern Song dynasty.
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- McLaren points out that the colloquial language did not become the language of the written literature until the Ming period (1368-1644) and that the stories in this collection are also among the earliest examples of realistic fiction in China, despite their strong moral and didactic purpose.
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- (6th century BC). A philosopher in ancient China, Laozi (or Lao-tzu) is credited with writing the Daode jing. The book is the earliest record of Daoism-a philosophy that has shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years. Daoism emphasizes self-knowledge, simplicity, spirituality, and openness.
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Christopher Latham Sholes At this stage, the Sholes-Glidden-Soule typewriter was only one among dozens of similar inventions. They wrote hundreds of letters on their machine to various people, one of whom was James Densmore of Meadville, Pennsylvania.
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- Answer Wiki. The Wade–Giles was developed by Thomas Francis Wade in 1892, a scholar of Chinese and a British ambassador in China who was the first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University.It was created to allow English-speaking people living in the British Empire a formal system to read, write, listen and pronounce Mandarin characters.
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- Inventiones math. 35, 131 - 153 (1976) Inventiones mathematicae 9 by Springer-Verlag 1976 Vector Bundles on Projective 3-Space M.F. Atiyah (Oxford) and E. Rees (Oxford) To Jean-Pierre Serre w 1.
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- Written by Ueda Akinari and first published in 1776, it is universally admired for the classical elegance of its style and for the supreme skill with which the tales are constructed and recounted.
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- The most important change in Chinese writing since the standardization in the Qin dynasty occurred in the middle of the 20th century. In 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) introduced simplified characters (jiantizi) to replace the traditional Kaishu characters.
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Tang dynasty Short story fiction and tales were also popular during the Tang, one of the more famous ones being Yingying's Biography by Yuan Zhen (779–831), which was widely circulated in his own time and by the Yuan dynasty (1279–1368) became the basis for plays in Chinese opera.n 907 the Tang dynasty was ended when Zhu Wen, now a military governor, deposed the last emperor of Tang, Emperor Ai of Tang, and took the throne for himself (known posthumously as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang). He established the Later Liang, which inaugurated the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Printing in England from William Caxton to Christopher BarkerAn Exhibition: November 1976 - April 1977 This is a copy of the second edition; the first was printed by Caxton in 1481. Caxton made his English translation from a French text written in Bruges in 1464. The first edition was requested and paid for by Hugh Dryce, a mercer and alderman of the city of London, who intended to present the book to Lord Hastings.
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Three Kingdoms Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Sānguó yǎnyì 三國演義) is a historical novella based on the Three Kingdoms era of China and written by Luo Guanzhong. It is more famous than Chen Shou's Records of Three Kingdoms among the casual Three Kingdoms fan.
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- Biography – CAVELIER DE LA SALLE, RENÉ-ROBERT – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
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Stepped reckoner Stepped reckoner. The step reckoner (or stepped reckoner) was a digital mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and completed in 1694.[1] The name comes from the translation of the German term for its operating mechanism, Staffelwalze, meaning 'stepped drum'.
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intro In front of the statue lie a celestial globe, a rain gauge, and a sundial, all of which King Sejong invented himself during his reign. Behind the statue, there are six columns with golden carvings depicting the King's major accomplishments, as well as an underground passage to the 'Sejong's Story' exhibition hall. Surrounding the statue, on the edges of the Square, is the 'Waterway of History,' a stream flowing on tiles with inscriptions of Korean history. King Sejong (1392-1910) King Sejong is best remembered as the inventor of Hangeul, the Korean alphabet.
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chinoiserie Whole rooms, such as those at Chantilly, were painted with compositions in chinoiserie, and Watteau and other artists brought consummate craftsmanship to the style. Thomas Chippendale, the chief exponent in England, produced a unique and decorative type of furniture. The craze early reached the American colonies.
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Armillary sphere As such, it differs from a celestial globe, which is a smooth sphere whose principal purpose is to map the constellations. With the Earth as center, an armillary sphere is known as Ptolemaic.he sphere, built in 1433 was named Honcheonui (혼천의). The Honcheonsigye, an armillary sphere activated by a working clock mechanism was built by the Korean astronomer Song Iyeong in 1669. It is highly valued in term of clock-making technology and is the only remaining astronomical clock from the Joseon Dynasty.
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The Enlightenment (1650â1800) A German author who wrote near the end of the Aufklärung, the German Enlightenment. Goethe’s morose The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) helped fuel the Sturm und Drang movement, and his two-part Faust (1808, 1832) is seen as one of the landmarks of Western literature.
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- An equally influential book was The Spirit of the Laws, written in 1748 by the French philosopher the Baron de Montesquieu. Writing while France was still under the rule of an all-powerful monarchy, Montesquieu admired the British system that separated the powers of the monarch, the parliament, and the ju-diciary.
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- The Staffelwalze, or Stepped Reckoner, a digital calculating machine invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and built around 1700, on display in the Technische Sammlungen museum in Dresden, Germany.
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Grand Canal, China It was the first Qin emperor in 221 BCE who standardized writing in China. Before this, each area had its own particular writing system. But with the help of the connections made by the Grand Canal. the so-called Qin script became the official set of characters, required for all state and governmental affairs.
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Taijitu Ming period author Lai Zhide (1525–1604) simplified the taijitu to a design of two interlocking spirals. In the Ming era, the combination of the two interlocking spirals of the taijitu with two black-and-white dots superimposed on them became identified with the He tu or Yellow River diagram (河圖).
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- The French Academy of Science did not create the metric system. The French were instrumental in instituting the metric system, but the ideas that set things in motion were tho…se of English clergyman John Wilkins (F.R.S.), and French scientist (and abbot) Gabriel Mouton.