Wei Boyang

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Who is Wei Boyang?

Wei Boyang was a noted Chinese author and Chinese alchemist of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three, and is noted as the first person to have documented the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD.

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  • Taoism

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on July 23, 2013

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