What book is praised by the west as the earliest encyclopedia of science and technology in the world?

China's Yongle Dadian in Ming Dynasty was praised by the west as the earliest encyclopedia of science and technology in the world. The book Yongle Dadian records the data of China14th century in many fields, such as astronomical geography, Yin and Yang Buddhism and Taoism, medical divination, philosophy, various crafts, agronomy, drama and so on.

Encyclopedia I * * * more than ten thousand volumes, about 370 million words, covering thousands of years of knowledge in China. It is called a book of ten thousand volumes, which is more than 300 years earlier than the Encyclopedia Britannica, and has collected 78,000 ancient China classics. This is by far the largest encyclopedia in the world.

Two editing of Yongle Dadian. For the first time, the name was documentary Dacheng, and Yongle Emperor Judy was very dissatisfied. The second edition was edited by Yao and others. The editing team has more than 2,000 people, including other participants, with more than 20,000 people. Books in the Ming Dynasty were collected and selected, and then a large number of people participated in drawing and copying, which shows that the project is very huge. After the completion, the emperor was very satisfied and personally prefaced the book and named it Yongle Dadian.

This book is produced by Yao, a famous writer, politician and Buddhist in Ming Dynasty. He is proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and is also Judy's counselor. In the battle of Jingnan, he helped Judy to become emperor smoothly. He is a very powerful man.

Now, where the original of this book is unknown, only more than 800 copies and other versions are known, which are still scattered all over the world. It is very precious. For example, Taoist books were almost burned out in the Yuan Dynasty, and Yongle Dadian recorded almost all Taoist classics handed down before the Ming Dynasty.