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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Aristotle, Robert Watson, Shen Kuo, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Wang Chong, Eric Nguyen, Andrija Mohorovi i, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Jacob Bjerknes, Roger Daley, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Nicolaas Kruik, Johannes Letzmann, Eugenia Kalnay, John Scouler, Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, List of personalities on The Weather Channel, Francesco Denza, Stanley B. Goldenberg, Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, Tom Terry, Zhao Jiuzhang, John Knox, Rob Mayeda, Hendrik Tennekes, Ye Duzheng, Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, Jianping Li, Katrina Voss, Coching Chu, Henry Francis Blanford, Roman Kintanar, List of meteorologists, Vilho Vaisala, Mark Finan, Mike Conte, Robert Emden, Gandikota V. Rao, Gil Simmons, Smith Dharmasaroja, Narciso Vernizzi, Albert Riggenbach, Certified Consulting Meteorologist, T. N. Krishnamurti. Excerpt: Shen Kuo or Shen Gua (Chinese: pinyin: Sh n Kuo; Wade-Giles: Shen K'uo) (1031-1095), style name Cunzhong ( ) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng ( ), was a polymathic ancient Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality. At court his political allegiance was to the Reformist faction known as the New Policies Group, headed by Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021-1086). In his Dream Pool Essays (; Mengxi Bitan) of 1088, Shen was the first to describe the magnetic needle compass, which would be...
