Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Shen Kuo across 3 places, from 1031 to 1040.
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Shen Kuo (1031–1095) or Shen Gua, courtesy name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi (now usually given as Mengxi) Weng, was a Chinese polymath, scientist, and statesman of the Northern Song dynasty.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Shen Kuo was documented, and when
1031year
Qiantangattested“Shen Kuo was born in Qiantang (modern-day Hangzhou) in the year 1031.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1040year
Sichuanattested“From about 1040 AD, Shen's family moved around Sichuan province and finally to the international seaport at Xiamen, where Shen's father accepted minor provincial posts in each new location.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1040year
Xiamenattested“From about 1040 AD, Shen's family moved around Sichuan province and finally to the international seaport at Xiamen, where Shen's father accepted minor provincial posts in each new location.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
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Places Shen Kuo is documented in
Qiantang1 presence · 1031
Sichuan1 presence · 1040
Xiamen1 presence · 1040
Other places tied to Shen Kuo in the record
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202 BCyear
Chinamentioned“Joseph Needham suggests that certain pottery vessels of the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD) showing artificial mountains as lid decorations may have influenced the development of the raised-relief map in China.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1015year
Yangzhoumentioned“While serving at Yangzhou, Shen's brilliance and dutiful character caught the attention of Zhang Chu (; 1015–1080), the Fiscal Intendant of the region.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1052year
Suzhou, Jiangsumentioned“His father Shen Zhou (; 978–1052) was a somewhat lower-class gentry figure serving in official posts on the provincial level; his mother was from a family of equal status in Suzhou, with her maiden name being Xu ().”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1072year
Grand Canal of Chinamentioned“In 1072, Shen was sent to supervise Wang's program of surveying the building of silt deposits in the Bian Canal outside the capital city.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1074year
Taihang Mountainsmentioned“While visiting the Taihang Mountains in 1074, Shen Kuo noticed strata of bivalve shells and ovoid rocks in a horizontal-running span through a cliff like a large belt.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
1080year
Yanzhoumentioned“Around the year 1080, Shen Kuo noted that a landslide on the bank of a large river near Yanzhou (modern Yan'an) had revealed an open space several dozens of feet under the ground once the bank collapsed.”source: Wikipedia: Shen Kuo
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