Su Song (Chinese: 蘇頌; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: So͘ Siōng, 1020–1101), courtesy name Zirong (Chinese: 子容; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chú-iông), [1] was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived during the Song dynasty (960–1279).

苏颂（1020年12月10日－1101年6月18日），字子容， 福建路 泉州 同安县 （今属福建省 厦门市 同安区）人。 中国 北宋 中期官员，杰出的天文学家、天文机械制造家、药物学家。 [6] [72] 苏颂出身 闽南 望族，于 宋仁宗 庆历二年（1042年）登 进士 第，授 宿州 观察推官。 此后长期在 馆阁 供职，广涉古籍，留心医学。 嘉祐六年（1061年）后多次出知地方，治绩斐然，并两次出使 辽朝 、三任 馆伴使。 宋神宗 时曾参与 元丰改制。 宋哲宗 即位之初，历任 刑部尚书 、 吏部尚书 、 …

Su Song (born 1020, Fujian Province, China—died 1101, Kaifeng) was a Chinese scholar and administrative and financial expert in the imperial bureaucracy. His Illustrated Pharmacopoeia (1070) revealed his knowledge of drugs, zoology, metallurgy, and related technology. An armillary clock that he built to serve as the basis of calendrical ...

Su Song and the Mechanical Clock Tower. One high official, Su Song (1020-1101), is famous for having designed and constructed a mechanical clock tower (almost 40 feet high) by adding a chain-driven mechanism to the existing water-powered clock. The clock told not only the time of day but also the day of the month, the phase of the moon, and the ...

Su Song. 1020-1101. Scientist. Sources. Official. The son of a high-ranking official, Su Song successfully passed his Jinshi degree examination and was offered a post in the Imperial Library in 1053. In 1057 the Song court appointed him to revise the medical classics. By 1062 he revised and enlarged a massive work on pharmacology and natural ...

Su Song's Cosmic Engine was an astronomical clock tower that was built in the city of Kaifeng in 1092 by the astronomer Su Song. The clock tower was more than 10 meters high and was equipped with a huge bronze water-driven astronomical instrument called an armillary sphere, with which one could observe the positions of the stars.

Su Song was a Chinese astronomer and pharmacologist in the Northern Song dynasty. His public name was Zirong. In 1042, Su Song passed the imperial examinations for government service. In 1086, he was ordered to investigate existing armillary spheres.

2024年7月26日 · SU SONG (c. 1020–1101), Chinese polymath, scientist, inventor, and statesman who built an astronomical clock tower that was by far the most advanced such instrument of its day and anticipated by centuries similar developments in Europe.

Su-Sung's clock was stolen when invading Tatars put an end to the Sung dynasty in 1126. The Tatars weren't able to get it running again, and the high art of Chinese clock-making completely disappeared.

Su Song (1020-1101), who was born in Tong'an, Fujian province, was a renowned polymath of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). Su was very intelligent and could recite scriptures and poems at the age of 5. He was granted the title of jinshi (the highest degree in the imperial examination) in 1042 and was successively given many official positions.