A Study on Waidan and Huangbai in the Book Miraculous Prescription of the Most Exalted Eight Sceneries, Four Pistils, Purple Thick Liquid and Five Beads for Birth (2007)
Rong, Zhiyi (Author)
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Volume: 26
Pages: 51--63
Edition Details: [Translated title.] In Chinese.
Language: Chinese
Abstract Up to now the academic world has not made any detailed discussion on the relationship between the book Miraculous Prescription of the Most Exalted Eight Sceneries, Four Pistils, Purple Thick Liquid and Five Beads for Birth and Waidan (laboratory alchemy) & Huangbai (gold and silver). Through textual research analysis, this article thinks the above-mentioned book was completed during the reign of Emperor Ai of the Jin Dynasty. Moreover, the book presents the embryonic form of the earliest gunpowder formula known at present. Not only that, it also for the first time obtained the crystal of free state simple substance arsenic in drug preparation, as well as the mosaic gold. It is also one of the prescriptions for preparing mercurous sulfate. And in geometric series and in magnifying glass application, the book also adds color to itself. Therefore, it has a vital significane in the history of the invention of gunpowder, the history of the refinement of simple substance arsenic and the mosaic gold, or in the history of mathematica and optics. Key words Miraculous Prescription of the Most Exalted Eight Sceneries, Four Pistils, Purple Thick Liquid and Five Beads for Birth, embryonic form of the earliest gunpowder formula, the earliest system to result in the simple substance of arsenic
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