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Ts'ai Lun is the reputed inventor of paper. He lived in China about 100 CE. |
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Science including Earth science is at present only weakly and indirectly connected to T'sai Lun. Other personal studies including the human body and psychology can be connected, Other biographies are not yet well connected. |
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Anthropology is also connected. Social foundations, demogrpahy, physical anthropology, and human ecology can be connected. Human geography will be significant. He lived in Asia and probably never visited Europe. He is not yet connected to particular groups. CultureHe is known for innovations in material culture. Industrial technology buildings, foodstuffs, clothing, and transportation technology are little known. In communications technology, he is the reputed inventor of paper. Other artifacts are not yet well connected. Conceptual culture including language, and graphic arts will be significant, but literature by or about him is not prominent at all. Mathematics, applied science, and philosophy are not yet well connected. Behavioral culture including customs, occupations, recreation and entertainment, and cultural events has not yet been well described. InstitutionsFamilies including marriage, parenting, kinship, and particular families are weakly connected: he was a court eunuch. Education including research, teaching, educational organization, educational organization, and particular studies seems to be weakly connected. Connections to economics including economic activities, industries, and economic systems are not clear, except that he founded an industry. He seems to have been a minor government official, although I do not yet have more specific detail on law, government structure, government activity, or particular governments. Religion does not seen to be prominent in his case. I have no connections with beliefs, practices, organization, or traditions. Sociology, including social structure and change, particular communities and peoples, will also be important. The only connection I have to specific nations is that he lived in what is now China. He belonged to Asiatic peoples, particularly Oriental peoples. Ts'ai Lun lived during the late classical period, Sometime around the first century CE or second century CE. |
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