Su Song
1020–1101
Chinese polymath who built a great astronomical clock tower.
- Known as
- Polymath
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 1020, Quanzhou
- Died
- 1101
Alive at the same time as Su Song
- Ibn al-Haytham c. 965–c. 1040, physicist
- Bi Sheng c. 970–c. 1051, inventor
- Al-Biruni 973–c. 1050, scholar
- Mahmud al-Kashgari c. 1005–c. 1102, scholar
- Ramanuja c. 1017–c. 1137, philosopher
- Nizam al-Mulk 1018–1092, statesman
- Yusuf Balasaghuni c. 1019–c. 1085, poet
- Shen Kuo 1031–1095, polymath
- Anselm of Canterbury c. 1033–1109, theologian and philosopher
- Pope Urban II c. 1035–1099, pope
- Su Shi 1037–1101, poet
- Rashi 1040–1105, rabbi
Portrait: 不詳, Public domain.
