三 . In October-December 2020 in Tsing Hua University a series of
public lectures were devoted to activities of the famous Song
dynasty polymath Shen Kuo (Shen Gua)沈括(1031-1095) who
was an expert in numerous fields related to science and technology.
Was the phenomenon of Shen Kuo very unusual, or there were
other scholars - in China or in the West -- who were experts in
different fields of science and technology? Provide an example of
such a scholar (NOT Shen Kuo!) who was an expert in at least
two fields of science and/or technology. Answer the following
questions (in English or in Chinese) about this scholar and provide
information necessary to support your opinion:
【題組】(2) Introduce his main publications, their (approximate) dates, andprovide a detailed description of the contents of one of them.
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