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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: 32. Chapters: Theodosius Dobzhansky, List of entomologists, Shen Kuo, George Bornemissza, Stanley Jennings Carpenter, Kurt Johnson, Charles David Badham, E. B. Alo, Clodoveo Carrion Mora, Aharon Shulov, Guido Nonveiller, Ivan Regen, George Morrison Reid Henry, Gene E. Robinson, Karl Kraepelin, Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr., Kenneth Richard Norris, Seok Joo-myung, Ivan Buresh, Thomas R. Odhiambo, William H. Cade, Matija Gogala, Charles E. Palm, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth, Zicman Feider, William de Alwis, Arthur Sidney Olliff, Max Beier, Carroll Williams, Walter R. Tschinkel, J. G. Myers, Alexander Kirilow Drenowski, John Cowley. 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 used for navigation (first described in Europe by Alexander Neckam in 1187). Shen discovered the concept of true north in terms of magnetic declination towards the north pole, with...
