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Presented here is a set of two works by Xiong Mingyu and his son Xiong Renlin, in six juan in two volumes. This copy was printed in the fifth year (1648) of the Shunzhi reign of the Qing dynasty by their relative Xiong Zhixue at Tanyang Shulin. As Xiong Mingyu’s work Ge zhi cao (A draft on investigation of things) discusses heaven, while Xiong Renlin’s Di wei (Latitudes of the earth) is on the earth, this set was given the title Han yu tong (Cosmology) by Xiong Zhixue ...