The 24 Solar Terms is regarded as China's fifth great invention, after papermaking, printing, the compass and gunpowder.

二十四节气被认为是中国继造纸术、印刷术、指南针和火药之后的第五大发明。

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Writing at the beginning of the 17th century, Francis Bacon, an English philosopher of science, maintained that the three most important inventions were gunpowder, the magnetic compass and printing.

弗朗西斯·培根，一位英国科学哲学家，在17世纪初强调说三项最重要的发明是火药、罗盘和印刷术。

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On a recent branding mission to China, we learned that every child in Chinese elementary school is taught the three Chinese innovations that changed the world: gunpowder, the compass, and movable type (Chinese ancients also invented paper currency).

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