The term "four new inventions" harks back to the "four great inventions" of ancient China - papermaking, gunpowder, printing and the compass. China has been putting strong emphasis on ...

and Invention. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1986). Information given here is from Temple's book. This activity is an informative way to introduce Chinese history and technology. If the teacher ...

Yates, Professor of History and East Asian Studies at McGill ... What were some of the other Chinese inventions of this period that had a profound influence on the course of civilization?

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

Historian Han Qi on why the exchange of scientific knowledge is so important - from astronomy and salt wells to high-speed ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...