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WITH reference to the letter under the above heading by Mr. H. P. Vowles in NATURE of Feb. 27, p. 317, there is in this library a copy of a Chinese work entitled “Ch'i Ch'i t'u Shuo” (“Record of Strange Machines from the West”), which is probably the source of the Chinese illustrations of machines referred to by Mr. Vowles. The book, which is on applied mechanics, was compiled in 1627 by Wang Cheng, a Christian convert, and contains fifty-four illustrations of machines, windmills, etc., which appear to have been copied directly from the sixteenth century sketch-books of Besson (1569), Ramelli (1588), and Veranzio (1595).
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GOMME, A. Ancient Windmills. Nature 129, 439 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129439b0
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