Song Dynasty people

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 124. Chapters: People executed by the Song Dynasty, Song Dynasty Buddhists, Song Dynasty Jiedushi, Song Dynasty Taoists, Song Dynasty emperors, Song Dynasty generals, Song Dynasty historians, Song Dynasty musicians, Song Dynasty painters, Song Dynasty poets, Song Dynasty politicians, Song Dynasty rebels, Sima Guang, Shen Kuo, Zhou Tong, Yue Fei, Su Song, Su Shi, List of emperors of the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi, Ouyang Xiu, Mi Fu, Emperor Taizu of Song, Lu You, Bao Zheng, Emperor Taizong of Song, Liu Chang, Han Shizhong, Emperor Huizong of Song, Song Jiang, Emperor Gong of Song, Wang Anshi, Sun Bu'er, Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Wang Chongyang, Fang La, Xia Gui, Zhang Sixun, Fan Zhongyan, Xin Qiji, Shao Yong, Yu Hao, Yang Hui, Gao Qiu, Lu Xiufu, Li Houzhu, Emperor Qinzong of Song, Emperor Renzong of Song, Qiu Chuji, Tong Guan, Fan Kuan, Emperor Gaozong of Song, Emperor Xiaozong of Song, Ma Yuan, Wei Pu, Ji Gong, Wuzhun Shifan, Lü Shinang, Guan Tong, Emperor Shenzong of Song, Lin Tinggui, Li Qingzhao, Guo Xi, Emperor Yingzong of Song, Yi Yuanji, Chen Yizhong, Qian Chu, Song Qi, Zhang Zeduan, Fan Chengda, Emperor Lizong of Song, Emperor Duanzong of Song, Zeng Gong, Emperor Zhezong of Song, Zhao Mengfu, Li Tang, Qin Jiushao, Emperor Guangzong of Song, Emperor Duzong of Song, Cai Xiang, Jia Xian, Emperor Bing of Song, Wang Qing, Liang Hongyu, Qian Xuan, Juran, Muqi Fachang, Li Cheng, Liang Kai, Ma Duanlin, Wen Tong, Cheng Yi, Tian Hu, Emperor Ningzong of Song, Che Kung, Yuanwu Keqin, Cui Bai, Xue Juzheng, Mei Yaochen, Zhang Shijie, Zhao Rugua, Mu Qi, Yan Hui, Han Tuozhou, Xu Daoning, Meng Chang, Yang Wanli, Li Jiqian, Li Gonglin, Zhou Jichang, Yang Ye, Lu Guang, Song Ci, Hu Sansheng, Zhang Jiucheng, Li Song, Huang Tingjian, Zhu Shuzhen, Wang Chuyi, Li Di, Huarui Furen, Chen Rong, Wang Ximeng, Huyan Zan, Ou Shizi, Liu Kezhuang, Yan Yu, Chao Chongzhi, Zhang Zhu, Yang Buzhi, Jiang Kui, Fang Hui, Zhang Junfang, Wang Yucheng, Guo Chuwang, Zeng Gongliang. Excerpt: Shen Kuo or Shen Gua (Chinese: ; pinyin: Shen Kuò; Wade-Giles: Shen K'uo) (1031-1095), style name Cunzhong (¿¿) and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng (¿¿¿), was a polymathic 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 experimentation of suspended magnetic needles and "the improved meridian determined by Shen's measurement of the distance between the polestar and true north". This was the decisive step in human history to make compasses more useful for navigation, and may have been a concept unknown in Europe for an...