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The earliest such design of a sand-clock was made by Zhan Xiyuan around 1370, which featured not only the scoop wheel of Su Song' device, but also a new addition of a stationary dial face over which a pointer circulated, much like new European clocks of the same period. [53]
Su Song (simplified Chinese: 苏颂; traditional Chinese: 蘇頌; pinyin: Sū Sòng; style name: Zirong 子容) (1020–1101 AD) was a renowned Chinese polymath who specialized himself as a statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, poet, antiquarian, and ambassador of the Song dynasty (960–1279).
Xinyuan Song (Chinese: 宋心遠) is a Chinese statistician known for her research on structural equation modeling and latent variables in Bayesian statistics. With Sik-Yum Lee, she is a coauthor of the book Basic and Advanced Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling: With Applications in the Medical and Behavioral Sciences (Wiley, 2012).
[18] [19] Again, instead of using water, the early Ming Dynasty engineer Zhan Xiyuan (c. 1360–1380) created a sand-driven wheel clock, improved upon by Zhou Shuxue (c. 1530–1558). [ 20 ] The use of clepsydrae to drive mechanisms illustrating astronomical phenomena began with the Han Dynasty polymath Zhang Heng (78–139) in 117, who also ...
Zhang Xiyuan (Chinese: 张熙媛; pinyin: Zhāng Xīyuán; born 12 November 1989), also known as Crystal Zhang, is a Chinese actress and model born in Shenyang. Career [ edit ]
Song Xilian (宋希濂; April 9, 1907 – February 13, 1993) styled as Yin Guo, was born in Xikou, Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He graduated from the first class of the Huangpu Military Academy and was known as the "light of Huangpu."
On 14 October 2012, Zhang Yuge became one of the 26 shortlisted candidates during the recruitment of SNH48 first-generation members. [1] On 12 January 2013, she made her first public appearance during SNH48 Research Students' 1st Stage, "Give Me Power!"
Zhou Xiaohong (traditional Chinese: 周小紅; simplified Chinese: 周小红; pinyin: Zhōu Xiǎohóng; Wade–Giles: Chou 1 Hsiao 3 hung 2; born Su Pu; [a] August 1, 1920 – September 22, 1957), known professionally as Zhou Xuan (Chinese: 周璇; pinyin: Zhōu Xuán), also romanized as Chow Hsuan (Wade–Giles: Chou 1 Hsüan 2), was a Chinese singer and film actress.