What was the first book about agriculture and handicrafts in the Ming Dynasty?

The first book about agriculture and handicrafts in the Ming Dynasty was characterized by its ingenious nature. Heavenly Creations is the first comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production in the world. It is a comprehensive scientific and technological work in ancient China. Others call it an encyclopedic work. The writer is Song, a scientist in Ming Dynasty. Foreign scholars call it "China17th century craft encyclopedia".

In Ming Dynasty and Song Dynasty, Tiangong Kaiwu recorded the production techniques of ancient agricultural handicrafts in China, such as grain, textile, bricks and tiles, ceramics, salt making, oil extraction, coal mining and machinery.

Brief introduction to the contents of heavenly creations.

China's ancient physical knowledge is scattered in the Wu Kai of Tiangong, such as water lifting tools (trucks, beaches, windmills), rudder, pouring steel, clay casting kettle, lost wax casting, methods of removing coal mine gas, brine absorber (pump) in salt wells, melting extraction methods and so on. It is clearly pointed out in the hardware that zinc is a new metal and its smelting method is recorded for the first time.