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Shen Kuo
Shen Kuo was a Chinese scholar-official and polymath of the Northern Song dynasty who served under Wang Anshi's reform government. In his Dream Pool Essays (completed about 1088) he described the magnetic needle compass and magnetic declination, Bi Sheng's movable type, fossils and land formation, and many problems of astronomy, mathematics and engineering, making the work one of the richest records of Song science and technology.
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