 | Bethnal Green Branch Museum, Augustus Wollaston Franks - Porcelain, Asian - 1876 - 184 pages
...attempted to explain all the secrets of nature and of being. As arranged in the diagram here given they are supposed to be in connexion with the points...represented on several specimens in the collection. See No?. 71,157,368. The circular figure in the centre is the mystical device, the Yang and Yin, the male... | |
 | sir Augustus Wollaston Franks - 1878 - 322 pages
...saucer, No. 392, where it is surrounded by five bats. It may also be found as a mark, Plate V. fig. 60, Plate XIII. fig. 170. Plate C. fig. 18. A bat. This...circular figure in the centre is the mystical device, the Tang and Yin, the male and female elements of nature. This device is not unfrequently employed as an... | |
 | Frank Brinkley - China - 1902 - 534 pages
...and of being. The diagram shows the oldest arrangement, in which they are supposed to be connected with the points of the compass, the north and south...however, reversed, according to the Chinese system (ie, the south represented by three entire lines, the north by three broken). "The circular figure... | |
 | Frank Brinkley - 1904 - 530 pages
...and of being. The diagram shows the oldest arrangement, in which they are supposed to be connected •with the points of the compass, the north and south...however, reversed, according to the Chinese system (ie, the south represented by three entire lines, the north by three broken). "The circular figure... | |
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The diagram here given is the oldest arrangement, in which they are supposed to be in connexion with the points of the compass, the north and south being, however, reversed, according to the Chinese system. For further particulars, see Mayers 