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Title

  • Pian zhi : er shi juan

Other Title

  • 駢志 : 二十卷 /

Summary

  • The author of this work, Chen Yumo (1548-1618), a scholar and official, worked as an instructor at the Directorate of Education, as a surveillance commissioner in Sichuan, and as a provincial administration commissioner in Guizhou Province. Presented here is his Pian zhi (An anthology of early works with comparisons and analyses) in an edition from the Wanli reign (1573-1620). It is a collection of early works on similar subjects, for which Chen Yumo provided comparative analyses. Included in the work are examples of the writing of Zhang Heng (78-139 BC), a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and literary scholar of the Eastern Han dynasty. Among Zhang Heng's inventions were the water-powered armillary sphere to represent astronomical observation, the water clock, and the world's first seismometer, which is discussed in this collection. Another author represented is Tao Hongjing (456-536), a Daoist master and pharmacologist, who wrote about the celestial globe and the star map. Other subjects covered by different authors include the inscription on a bath bowl of an ancient king named Tang; the inscription on a bath bowl of King Wu; and Huangdi, the legendary Yellow Emperor. The author's preface is dated 1606. This copy has a number of seal impressions, including one that reads: Quyang Zhang shi jia cang (In the Collection of Zhang Family of Quyang). The Library of Congress also has Chen Yumo's other work, Si shu ming wu kao (A survey of famous classics in the Four Books). World Digital Library.

Names

  • Chen, Yumo, 1548-1618, ji
  • Chinese Rare Book Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • [China : publisher not identified, Ming Wanli bing wu, 34 nian, 1606]

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form.
  • -  十一行二十二字. Eleven lines, with twenty-two characters per line.
  • -  十六冊二函. Sixteen volumes in two cases.
  • -  原題:「海虞陳禹謨錫玄甫輯。」卷內有:「渠陽張氏家藏」, 「仁卿甫」等印記。自序萬曆三十四年(1606).
  • -  紙張稍黃. 第一冊第一葉有六藏印, 宜側重表現之.

Medium

  • 16 volumes

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2014514245

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Chen, Yumo, Ji, and Chinese Rare Book Collection. Pian Zhi: Er Shi Juan. [China: publisher not identified, Ming Wanli bing wu, 34 nian, 1606] Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2014514245/.

APA citation style:

Chen, Y. & Chinese Rare Book Collection. (1606) Pian Zhi: Er Shi Juan. [China: publisher not identified, Ming Wanli bing wu, 34 nian] [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2014514245/.

MLA citation style:

Chen, Yumo, Ji, and Chinese Rare Book Collection. Pian Zhi: Er Shi Juan. [China: publisher not identified, Ming Wanli bing wu, 34 nian, 1606] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2014514245/>.