As the world's first comprehensive scientific and technological work on agriculture and handicraft production, Exploitation of the Works of Nature attaches great importance to theoretical elaboration rather than simple technical description, otherwise it is not much better than those recipes  Some experts believe that Exploitation of the Works of Nature is not only a representative technical book in China, but also in East Asia
It covers a wide range of technologies, which is unmatched by European technical books
The former attaches importance to theory and the latter attaches importance to technology.