Comments on: Ming Dynasty Inventions https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/ Facts About Famous Events & Records of the Past Fri, 04 Mar 2022 10:18:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: Baseer Johnson https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-734691 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:27:06 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-734691 he Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is regarded to be one of the glorious periods in the history of China. Aside from its spectacular edifices, enchanting tourist attractions, and the wonderful Great Wall, the Ming Dynasty was also known for its amazing innovations. Ming Dynasty Inventions

The Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) is regarded to be one of the glorious periods in the history of China. Aside from its spectacular edifices, enchanting tourist attractions, and the wonderful Great Wall, the Ming Dynasty was also known for its amazing innovations.

Yongle Encyclopedia
Containing a wide coverage of subjects such as agriculture, art, astronomy, drama, history, medicine, religion and technology, the Yongle Encyclopedia was definitely the world’s largest known general encyclopedia in ancient times and the first encyclopedia to be written on earth.

It was in 1403 when Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty introduced the first encyclopedia in China and was later named after him. The Yongle Encyclopedia, also referred as The Great Canon or Vast Documents of the Yongle Era, was the inspiration for the making of today’s encyclopedia.

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]]> By: Captain Moroni https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-709111 Wed, 27 Jan 2021 17:56:41 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-709111 This was amazing info. Thanks for the amazing help on my project.

]]> By: John Dough https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-707030 Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:22:33 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-707030 The Ming did not invent the ship rudder. They were in use on ships during thr Song dynasty and we have models of river crafts wirh stern rudders from thr Han Dynasty .

Paper and Printing were we estsblished by the Song dynasty with paler going back to the Han dynasty and examplez of printing from the Tang dynasty.- although thr Ming dynasty made improvements, I don’t see them significant enough to be called an invention.

]]> By: Bart Dale https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-706688 Wed, 15 Jan 2020 00:52:29 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-706688 The ship’s rudder was invented and being used in China before the Ming dynasty Even Europe was using stern mounted ships rudders before the Ming dynasty, the earliest evidence in Europe is from iconography dating to around the 12th century. Unless you want to say the stern mounted ships rudder was invented first in Europe, it was being used in China before the Ming dynasty and so is not a Ming invention. Steering of large ships is possible without a stern mounted ships rudder, Roman ships of a 1000 tons or more were steered by twin mounted side oars a thousand years before the Ming. Really large ships require not only a ships rudder, but a steering wheel, which was invented in Europe sometime in the beginning of the 18th century and not used by the Ming. .

While 2 color printing is an impressive achievement, it has little to do with being able to print massive amount of documents, since even today most printing is done just using a single color, and printing massive amount of documents in a single color seems entirely feasible.

Although the word leishu, which is the kind of work the Yongle “encyclopedia” was, is translated as encyclopedia in English, it is quite a bit different from modern encyclopedias, and it is question what influence it had on the development of our modern encyclopedias. Leishus could include not just summaries or excerpts of important works, but the entire copies of the works themselves.

]]> By: Jack https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-705998 Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:58:11 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-705998 Need more stuff i have to name 20 inventions

]]> By: Lonewo1f https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-705616 Tue, 15 May 2018 17:21:36 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-705616 Way more then this

]]> By: Adolf https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-704941 Tue, 05 Dec 2017 18:36:05 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-704941 In reply to libby.

Wow! What a diverse and rich history China has to offer and learn from!

]]> By: Anonymous https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-699900 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 00:09:00 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-699900 Paper was created during the Han Dynasty.

]]> By: David https://totallyhistory.com/ming-dynasty-inventions/#comment-73347 Fri, 09 May 2014 16:55:38 +0000 http://totallyhistory.com/?p=3609#comment-73347 Thanks a lot for all the information it helped me a lot

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