A Record of the Most Excellent Curious Machines of the Far West

The Diagrams and Explanations of Curious Machines original: "奇器圖說" is one work among the more than seven thousand books brought by scholars from the Far West. Within that single branch of knowledge, this represents but one ten-thousandth of the whole. I, though untalented, have stealthily looked upward to observe the principles of crafting objects that reflect the patterns of nature, and I have found deep satisfaction in the Xuanji Yuheng the armillary sphere, an instrument representing the movements of the heavens.