1088年8月的一个夜晚,在如今的江苏镇江郊外一座名叫梦溪的园林中,一位年近60岁的老人正坐在书房的案前,奋笔疾书,在他书稿的封面上有四个苍劲有力的大字:《梦溪笔谈》。这位奋笔疾书的老人,就是被英国著名科学家李约瑟博士称为“中国科学史的坐标”——沈括。《梦溪笔谈》是沈括毕生科学研究的结晶,书中记载了我国古代劳动人民的许多重要发明创造,是一部百科全书式的著作,全书共二十六卷,另有《补笔谈》三卷,《续 One night in August 1088, in a garden called Mengxi on the outskirts of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province today, an old man, nearly 60 years old, is sitting in front of a study and writing a book on the cover of his book. Four vigorous and powerful characters: “Meng Xi Bi Tan.” The exhortation of the elderly, that is, by the famous British scientist Dr. Joseph Needham called “the history of science in China ” - Shen Kuo. “Meng Xi Bi Tan Tan” is the crystallization of life science research, the book records the ancient Chinese working people many important inventions, is an encyclopedic book, a total of twenty-six volumes, and another “make up pen” three Volume, "continued