About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Zhang Heng, Shen Kuo, Kenneth Hsu, Su Song, Song Yingxing, Roger Y. Tsien, Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest, List of modern scientists from Zhejiang, Chao Yuen Ren, Wo Weihan, Ma Jun, Zhang Sixun, Chien Wei-zang, T. T. Chang, Weng Wenhao, Xie Xuejing, Zeng-Yuan Guo, Li Shu-hua, List of modern scientists from Shanghai, Wei Pu, Tan Jiazhen, Cai Wen, Zheng Ji, Hsien Wu, Sun Jiadong, Zhao Jiuzhang, Pei Wenzhong, Ouyang Ziyuan, Ye Duzheng, Chen Ziyuan, Yao Zhen, Ren Mei'e, Coching Chu, Robert C. T. Lee, Yingjie Jay Guo, Yang Fuyu, Jiang Ximing, Li Sanli, He Xiantu, Ba Denian, Liu Gaolian, Shao Xianghua, Wang You, Jia Lanpo, Ding Zhongli, Hongjia Huang, Ye Peijian, Shoukai Wang, York Liao, Cai Xitao, Chen Hang, Shi Yafeng, Xiangzhong Yang, Pan Jiazheng, Gao Zhan, Tong Dizhou, Sun Laiyan, Jingshan Jiang, Chang Chi-yun, Guo Zhengtang, Wu Mengchao, List of Chinese scientists, Wang Yongzhi, Chen Xing, Yu Xiaogang, Liu Yuanzhang, Sun Jinliang, Jiamo Fu, Xiaobo Yu, Zhou Guozhi, Wang Zhongcheng, Bangxing Zhou, Zhu S-H. 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 ...
