Image: Tiangong Kaiwu Ship
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Description: An illustration of a two-masted Chinese junk ship, from the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia of 1637, written by the Ming Dynasty encyclopedist Song Yingxing (1587-1666). The original picture is on page 173 of E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun's translation of Song Yingxing's Tiangong Kaiwu (Pennsylvania State University Press), while this picture is from the Qing Dynasty edition.
Title: Tiangong Kaiwu Ship
Credit: http://www.chinaknowledge.de/
Author: 宋應星(Song Yingxing, 1587-1666)
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