Wang Zhen

official of the Yuan Dynasty

1260 CE to 1333 CE

Wang Zhen ( fl.

1290 – 1333) is an official of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 – 1368) of China.

He is one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing system.

His illustrated agricultural treatise is also one of the most advanced of its day, covering a wide range of equipment and technologies available in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century.

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