1. Shen_Kua Biography of shen kua (10311095) shen kua is also known as Shen Kuo or ShenGua. His father was Shen Chou and his mother s family name was Hsu. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Shen_Kua.html

Shen Kua Born: 1031 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China Died: 1095 in Ching-k'ou, China Click the picture above to see a larger version Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Shen Kua is also known as Shen Kuo or Shen Gua. His father was Shen Chou and his mother's family name was Hsu. Both seem to have been quite old when Shen Kua was born; his father being around 53 years old, and his mother about 44 or 45 years old. Shen Chou was a government official who moved around between various posts in the provinces before ending his career in the legal profession in the capital Kaifeng. Shen Kua's mother came from the Soochow region of China and played an extremely important role in her son's upbringing since all his early education came from his mother. When he was about nine years old, Shen Kua began to move around the country with his father as he went from one post to the next. The type of work that officials such as Shen Chou had to undertake was very varied, for he was involved in financial matters, in technical matters such as looking after the waterways and canals and overseeing major building projects, and he would have responsibilities for agriculture in the district to which he was posted. The young boy Shen Kua learnt much from observing his father at work, and having an extremely sharp mind, he took full advantage of the opportunities presented to him. Another local administrator who Shen Chou came to know and to admire was Wang Anshi. He was 10 years older than Shen Chou's son Shen Kua and soon Shen Kua also came to admire Wang Anshi's administrative skills, and also his idealism. When Shen Kua's father died in 1051, Wang Anshi composed his epitaph. As the son of an official, Shen Kua himself could become an official after the death of his father without taking the formal examinations which others were required to sit. He was appointed to his first minor official post in 1054 and this was followed by a number of other postings.

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3. References For Shen_Kua References for the biography of shen kua. D Holzman, shen kua and his Mengch ipi-t an, T oung Pao (Leiden) 46 (1958), 260 -292. MK Siu, Pyramid, pile, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Shen_Kua.html

References for Shen Kua Version for printing Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: J-C Martzloff, A history of Chinese mathematics (Berlin-Heidelberg, 1997). J-C Martzloff, (Paris, 1987). J Needham, Science and Civilisation in China (Cambridge, 1959). Articles: J Brenier, et al., Shen Gua (1031 -1091) et les Sciences, Revue d'Histoire des Sciences et de Leurs Applications L G Feng, On Shen Kuo's mathematical thinking (Chinese), Dongbei Shida Xuebao Fu Daiwie, A Contextual and Taxonomic Study of the 'Divine Marvels' and 'Strange Occurrences' in the Mengxi bitan, Chinese Science D Holzman, Shen Kua and his Meng-ch'i pi-t'an, T'oung Pao (Leiden) M K Siu, Pyramid, pile, and sum of squares, Historia Math. Q Z Yin, Kuo Shen's mathematical thinking and methodology (Chinese), J. Baoji College Arts Sci. Nat. Sci. Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR December 2003 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland

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III Shen Kua Shen Kua was the most prominent of the polymathic statesmen who flourished in the Northern Sung. He was born in 1031, with registration at Ch’ien-t’ang [now Hangchow, Chekiang province], China, and died at Ching-k’ou , Jun prefecture (now Chinkiang, Kiangsu province) in 1095. Shen was the son of Shen Chou (ca. 978–1052) and his wife, whose maiden name was Hsu . Shen Chou came of a gentry family with neither large landholdings nor an unbroken tradition of civil service. He spent his life in minor provincial posts, with several years in the capital judiciary. Shen Kua apparently, like a number of other important southern intellectuals of his time, received his early education from his mother. A native of Soochow, known for its flourishing manufactures, commerce, and agriculture, she was forty-four or forty-five years old when he was born. Among other things, she taught him and his brother P’i the military doctrines of her elder brother Hsu Tung (ca. 976–ca. 1016). Shen’s background made it possible for him to enter the imperial bureaucracy, the only conventional road to advancement for educated people of his time. Unlike colleagues who came from the ancient great clans, he could count on few advantages save those earned by his striving and the full use of his talents. Shortly after he was assigned to the court, he became a confidant of the emperor and played a brilliant part in resolving the crises of the time. Within slightly over a decade, his career in the capital was ended by impeachment. After exemplary service in a provincial appointment and five years of meritorious military accomplishment, he was doubly disgraced and politically burnt out. The extremes of Shen’s career and the shaping of his experience in science and technology become comprehensible only if the pivotal circumstances of his time are first considered.

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Why the Scientific Revolution Did Not Take Place in China Or Didn't It? N. Sivin (Published in Sivin, Science in Ancient China, (Aldershot, Hants: Variorum, 1995), chapter VII) This essay makes the case for two conclusions. First, why the scientific revolution did not take place in China is not a question that historical research can answer. It commends attention to the fallacies that lead people to ask it. Second, a scientific revolution, by the criteria that historians of science use, did take place in China in the eighteenth century. It did not, however, have the social consequences that we assume a scientific revolution will have. It suggests that those assumptions are mistaken. Anyone who has looked into the history of science, technology, and medicine in the last generation or so has been aware that all the great civilizations of the ancient world had their own sophisticated traditions. The Chinese traditions, because they are recorded so fully, and because they were more independent of European influence than the Islamic and Indian ones, are particularly fascinating if we want to compare how understanding of Nature varies in different cultural circumstances. What the Chinese knew and did was explained by Chinese and Japanese historians beginning in the 1920's. My English colleague Joseph Needham began calling their work to the attention of educated people in the West, and encouraging them to add to it, in the 1950's. By now it is one of the most flourishing fields in the history of science, with perhaps a thousand specialists in China, Japan, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere.

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Shen Kuo [Categories: Chinese scientists, 1095 deaths, 1031 births, Polymaths] Shen Kuo or Shen Kua (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) Chinese scientist, polymath, general, diplomat, financial officer was the inventor of compasses for navigation. In his book Meng Xi Bi Tan He found out, that the compasses do not point north but to the magnetic north pole. That was the decisive step to make them useful for navigation. He formulated an hypothesis for the process of land formation: based on his observation of fossil shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean, he inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by deposition of silt. Shen Kua was not only a geologist; his memoirs list "regularities underlying phenomena" in magnetism, astronomy, and engineering, to name a few fields. He also wrote about (Click link for more info and facts about Yi Xing) Yi Xing (672-717), a Buddhist monk and his calculation of possible positions on a go board though without a sign for zero he had difficulties of expressing the number.

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