Villard de Honnecourt Notes References Ju, Zan, "Yixing". Encyclopedia of China (Religion Edition), 1st ed. Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 3. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd. Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 4, Part 2. Taipei: Caves Books, Ltd. Boscaro, Adriana (2003) Rethinking Japan: Social Sciences, Ideology and Thought. Routledge. 0-904404-79-x p. 330 External links Yi Xing at Chinaculture.org Yi Xing's Tomb Tiantai Mountain Yi Xing at the University of Maine 683 births 727 deaths 8th-century Buddhists 8th-century Buddhist monks 8th-century Chinese astronomers 8th-century Chinese writers 8th-century engineers 8th-century inventors 8th-century mathematicians Chinese inventors Chinese mechanical engineers Chinese scholars of Buddhism Engineers from Henan Hydraulic engineers Mathematicians from Henan Medieval Chinese mathematicians Philosophers from Henan Tang dynasty Buddhist monks Tang dynasty philosophers Writers from Puyang