Tao Hongjing: Having Read Over Ten Thousand Scrolls, to Miss One Thing Was a Deep Shame
Chinese history had a naturalist named Tao Hongjing; the History of the Southern Dynasties calls him "having read over ten thousand scrolls; to miss one thing was a deep shame." Tao Hongjing was expert in astronomy and calendrics, mountains and geography, medicine and materia medica,…
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