Scientific Active Coordinates -- The Erudite Shen Kuo: The Erudite Shen Kuo

Author: Liu Xijun
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The biography of the ancient Chinese scientific master, Baiji. He was an outstanding statesman in the Northern Song Dynasty of China with exceptional talents for governance, and also a knowledgeable and highly accomplished scientist. Throughout his life, he faced numerous hardships, but he was always dedicated to science. The "Dream Pool Essays," written in his later years, is a magnificent work of hundreds of thousands of words, rich in content, reflecting the great achievements of natural science in ancient China, especially during the Northern Song Dynasty. He was called by the renowned British science and technology historian, Dr. Joseph Needham, as "the most peculiar character in the history of Chinese science and technology." He is the living benchmark in the history of Chinese science and technology—Shen Kuo. A political reformer who dared to innovate, a versatile scientist, and a warrior who devoted his entire life to pursuing scientific justice.