Wei Boyang
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Wei Boyang (traditional Chinese: 魏伯陽; simplified Chinese: 魏伯阳) was a noted Chinese author and Chinese alchemist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three, and is noted as the first person to have documented the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD.[1][2]
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- ↑ Peng, Yoke Ho. [2000] (2000). Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China. Courier Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-41445-0
- ↑ Needham, Joseph. Cullen, C. [1976] (1976). Science and Civilisation in China. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-21028-3
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