Overview
The translated histories identify Shen Kuo as an astronomer, inventor, official, and scholar. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Shen Kuo | 沈括 | Shen Kuo |
| Title | co-supervisor | 同提舉官 | |
| Given | Kuo | 括 | Kuo |
| Title | Right Remonstrator | 右正言 | |
| Surname | Shen | 沈 | Shen |
| Personal name | Shen Kuo | 沈括 | Shen Kuo |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · songshi:080:s0270
Roles
- Astronomer
- Inventor
- Official
- Scholar
- Scientist
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 元豐五年八月 · Western Year: AD 1082Explicit · songshi:197:s0130
- Source Date: Text: 宣和六年七月 · Western Year: AD 1124Explicit event contextual date · songshi:080:s0312, songshi:080:s0290
- Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年七月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit event contextual date · songshi:080:s0273, songshi:080:s0270
- Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年六月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0270
Career and standing
- Label: Right Remonstrator / 右正言 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年七月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0273
- Label: co-supervisor / 同提舉官 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年六月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0270
- Title: graded reward for completed armillary sphere and clepsydra / 賞 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年七月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0273, songshi:080:s0276
Places and affiliations
- Place: Gate Facing the Sun / 迎陽門 · Relation: present-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年六月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0270
- Organization: Directorate of Astronomy / 司天監 · Relation: member-ofExplicit · songshi:080:s0270
Works and attributed material
- Work: Memorial on the Armillary Sphere / 渾儀 · Relation: authorExplicit · songshi:080:s0274
- Work: Memorial on the Clepsydra / 浮漏 · Relation: authorExplicit · songshi:080:s0274
- Work: Memorial on the Gnomon Table / 景表 · Relation: authorExplicit · songshi:080:s0274
- Work: Astronomical Treatise / 天文志 · Relation: recorded-inExplicit · songshi:080:s0274
Events and relationships
- Kind: appointment · Role: appointee · Action: appointed-Right-Remonstrator · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年七月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0273
- Kind: distribution · Role: distributor · Action: distributed-formation-splitting-axesExplicit · songshi:197:s0130
- Kind: inspection · Role: respondent · Action: explained-instrument-revisions · Other Person Id: Emperor (帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年六月 · Western Year: AD 1074Explicit · songshi:080:s0270
- Kind: scholarly-demonstration · Role: demonstrator · Action: modeled-moon-phases-with-clay-ball · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Wang Fu (王黼)Explicit · songshi:080:s0312
- Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Emperor (帝)Explicit · songshi:080:s0270
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: court adopted his proposals on instruments and calendrical books · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · songshi:080:s0275
- Item: new armillary sphere and clepsydra / 新制渾儀、浮漏 · Relation: designed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 熙寧七年六月 · Western Year: AD 1074
Source notes
- Statement: Court ordered ritual instruments and calendrical books refashioned according to his proposalsExplicit · songshi:080:s0275
References in the histories
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