In 1088 AD, the polymath scientist and statesman Shen Kuo once wrote of the artwork of one Li Cheng, who he criticized as follows:

They replaced earlier double slipways that had caused trouble and are mentioned by the Chinese polymath Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) in his book Dream Pool Essays ( published in 1088 ), and fully described in the Chinese historical text Song Shi ( compiled in 1345 ):

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

" The ancient Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) was the first person to write of the magnetic needle compass and that it improved the accuracy of navigation by employing the astronomical concept of true north ( Dream Pool Essays, AD 1088 ), and by the 12th century the Chinese were known to use the lodestone compass for navigation.

* Zhu Yu's book is the first to report the use of a magnetic compass for navigation at sea, although the first actual description of the magnetic compass is by another Chinese writer Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays published in 1088.

The Song Dynasty Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) experimented with a camera obscura, and was the first to apply geometrical and quantitative attributes to it in his book of 1088 AD, the Dream Pool Essays.

Outside China, these seem to be the earliest records ( the Chinese encyclopaedist Shen Kuo gave the first clear account of suspended magnetic compasses a hundred years earlier in 1088 AD with his book Mengxibitan, or Dream Pool Essays ).

Between 1079 and 1088, Chinese records show that Srivijaya sent ambassadors from Jambi and Palembang.

A Tamil inscription has been found in Barus dated 1088, while contact with Chinese and Tamil traders took place at Kota Cina, a trading town located in what is now northern Medan that was established in the eleventh century, and comprising 10, 000 people by the twelfth century.

Although it has become quite accepted that Levi ben Gerson first described Jacob's staff, the Sinologist Joseph Needham theorizes that the Song Dynasty Chinese scientist Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ), in his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, described a Jacob's staff.

The scientist, statesman, and general Shen Kuo ( 1031-1095 AD ) was the author of the Dream Pool Essays ( 1088 ), a large book of scientific literature that included the oldest description of the magnetized compass.

In a garden estate on the outskirts of Zhenjiang, the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031-1095 AD ) lived the rest of his days in isolation, where he wrote his famous Dream Pool Essays ( 1088 ).

* 1088 – As written by Shen Kuo in his Dream Pool Essays, the earlier 10th century invention of the pound lock in China allows large ships to travel along canals without laborious hauling, thus allowing smooth travel of government ships holding cargo of up to 700 tan ( 49½ tons ) and large privately owned-ships holding cargo of up to 1600 tan ( 113 tons ).

* 1088 – The Dream Pool Essays is completed by Shen Kuo of Song China.

* 1088 — Shen Kuo first recognizes magnetic declination.

In his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, Shen Kuo took an interdisciplinary approach to archaeology, fusing that subject with his work in optics, metallurgy, music, and geometry.

In his Dream Pool Essays (; Mengxi Bitan ) of 1088, Shen was the first to describe the magnetic needle compass, which would be used for navigation ( first described in Europe by Alexander Neckam in 1187 ).

Shen Kuo permanently moved to the Dream Brook Estate in 1088, and in that same year he completed his life's written work of the Dream Pool Essays, naming the book after his garden-estate property.

" However, the first suspended magnetic needle compass was written of by Shen Kuo in his book of AD 1088.

He became a monk of Monte Cassino, was taken to Rome by Pope Urban II, and made papal subdeacon ( August 1088 ) and cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin ( probably on 23 September 1088 ).

In 1088, Henry de Beaumont was made the first Earl of Warwick.

Pope Urban II cancelled Dagobert's irregular ordination and replaced it with a canonical one, and in 1088 made him Bishop of Pisa.

In due course he acquired a much greater land-holding in England, when, in reward for help in suppressing the Rebellion of 1088, King William II made him Earl of Warwick in 1088.

The town was seized by the Norman Bernard of Neufmarché before 1088 when a charter was made concerning the district.

Guy first appears in contemporary records when he became the Archbishop of Vienne in 1088.

Desiderius, abbot of Monte Cassino was first chosen pope as Victor III when Gregory VII died in 1085, but after Victor's short reign, Otho was elected Pope Urban II by acclamation ( March 1088 ) at a small meeting of cardinals and other prelates held in Terracina in March 1088.

* 1088 — The first almanac is the Almanac of Azarqueil written by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( Azarqueil )

He first comes to prominence as a supporter of William Rufus during the Rebellion of 1088.

The first occasion was in 1082, when he was imprisoned ; the second was in 1088, after aiding in the Rebellion of 1088, after which he fled England.

In 1088 Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, enfeoffed the Cotentin to his brother Henry, later King Henry I of England, who as count of the Cotentin established his first power base there and in the adjoining Avranchin, which lay to the south, beyond the River Thar, among the region's lords, abbots and bishops.

Italy became also a seat of great formal learning in 1088 with the establishment of the University of Bologna, the first university in Europe.

In 1088, at the age of only sixteen, William married his first wife, Ermengarde, the daughter of Fulk IV of Anjou.

The Earldom of Surrey was first created in 1088 for William de Warenne, as a reward for loyal service to William during the Conquest.

Crawinkel was first mentioned in 1088.

The succeeding pope, Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ), spent most of the first half of his pontificate in exile, in southern Italy and in France.

Yet, historically the first mention of São João occurred in 1088: the first reference was the phrase " Uilla de Sancto Ioanne de Mateira ", that appeared in the sale of lands in the territory.

Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088.

Ravensburg was first mentioned in writing in 1088.

Up to 1088 of these processors could be arranged in a single system, with a minimum of eight.

A 1088 node KSR1 could have 510 I / O channels with an aggregate in excess of 15 GB / s.

Guillermi's version is mostly copied from other works with small additions or excisions from the papal biographies of Pandulf, nephew of Hugo of Alatri, which in turn was copied almost verbatim from the original Liber Pontificalis ( with the notable exception of the biography of Pope Leo IX ), then from other sources until Pope Honorius II ( 1124 – 1130 ), and with contemporary information from Pope Paschal II ( 1099 – 1118 to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 1099 ).

Berengar of Tours ( c. 999 – January 6, 1088 ) was a French 11th century Christian theologian and Archdeacon of Angers, a scholar whose leadership of the cathedral school at Chartres set an example of intellectual inquiry through the revived tools of dialectic that was soon followed at cathedral schools of Laon and Paris, and who disputed with the Church leadership over the doctrine of transubstantiation in the Eucharist.

However this peace lasted less than a year when barons joined with Robert to displace Rufus in the Rebellion of 1088.

In the meantime, Judith remained in Germany and settled in her residence in Regensburg ( with short breaks ) from May or July 1074 until 1088.

With the return of Mieszko Bolesławowic to Poland, Władysław I normalized his relations with the kingdom of Hungary as well as Kievan Rus ( the marriage of Mieszko Bolesławowic to a Kievan princess was arranged in 1088 ).

Marine plywood can be graded as being compliant with BS 1088, which is a British Standard for marine plywood.

* The Cathedral, consecrated in 1088, a work of Count Roger I adorned later ( about 1163 ), by Bishop Jonathas, with a mosaic floor ; it has a rose window and side portal of 1481.

* 1088 ( Kanji 2, 14th day of the 12th ): The sesshō Fujiwara Morozane was given additional honors with the further title of daijō-daijin.

1080-line video is actually encoded with 1920 × 1088 pixel frames, but the last eight lines are discarded prior to display.

Along with his brother Odo he participated in a revolt in 1088 against William II but afterwards he was pardoned.

After William I's death in 1087, Roger joined with other rebels to overthrow the newly crowned King William II in the Rebellion of 1088.

In 1088 he led a military force against William de St-Calais, bishop of Durham, at the request of William Rufus when the bishop was implicated in a revolt against the king ; Roger also negotiated with the bishop on the king's behalf before the bishop went to trial.

He held Lower Lusatia between 1075 and 1086, but in 1088, with the insurrection of Egbert II of Meissen, Henry granted the region to Henry of Ostmark.