Shen Kuo — Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談)

Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays is a Song Dynasty book detailing observations in natural history, science, and technology. It is notable for its early discussions of geology, magnetism, and movable type printing.

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• Pliny the Elder — Natural History
• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon — Natural History
• Alexander von Humboldt — Personal Narrative of Travels

Sources for Shen Kuo — Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談)

• Open primary source
• Wikisource — “Aerial Perspective” (Herbert A. Giles, 1922)
• Wikisource scan, p. 185 — “Aureoles” and “Aerial Perspective” (1922)