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Wang Chong
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- Born
- 27
- Died
- 97?
- Works
- 15
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- Spontaneity & the pattern of things
- 論衡
- Lun heng jiao zheng
- Lun heng xuan yi
- Lun heng ji jie
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Wang Chung are a British new wave musical group. Originally called Huang Chung which is Chinese for "perfect pitch" (though they later claimed it was the sound a guitar made on American Bandstand), the band formed in 1979. The lineup consisted of vocalist/guitarist Jack Hues, bassist Nick Feldman, saxophonist David Burnand a.k.a "Hogg" and drummer Darren Costin. Their self-titled debut was released by Arista Records in 1982 after several singles, including the minor post-punk hit "Isn't It Abou
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5 total works indexed
- Image quality assessment: from error visibility to structural similarity
· 2004 · cited 48,572x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 44,696x
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,453x
- clusterProfiler: an R Package for Comparing Biological Themes Among Gene Clusters
· 2012 · cited 31,518x
- Accurate and simple analytic representation of the electron-gas correlation energy
· 1992 · cited 23,527x
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Key facts
- Born
- 0027 ( 0027 ) , Kuaiji, Han dynasty (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China)
- Died
- 0097 ( 0098 )
- Era
- Han dynasty philosophy
- Region
- Chinese philosophy
- School
- Rationalism, Naturalism
- Main interests
- Philosophy, Astronomy, Meteorology
- Notable ideas
- Materialism, Criticism of superstition, Scientific explanation of natural phenomena
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- date of birth
- 0027-01-01
- date of death
- 0097-01-01
- courtesy name
- 仲任
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- Wang Chong
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Wang Chong (Chinese: 王充; pinyin: Wáng Chōng; Wade–Giles: Wang Ch'ung; 27 – c. 97 AD), courtesy name Zhongren (仲任), was a Chinese astronomer, meteorologist, naturalist, philosopher, and writer active during the Eastern Han dynasty. He developed a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings and gave a materialistic explanation of the origin of the universe. His main work was the Lunheng (論衡, "Critical Essays"). This book contained many theories involving early sciences of astronomy and meteorology, and Wang Chong was even the first in Chinese history to mention the use of the square-pallet chain pump, which became common in irrigation and public works in China thereafter. Wang also accurately described the process of the water cycle.
Unlike most of the Chinese philosophers of his period, Wang spent much of his life in non-self-inflicted poverty. He was said to have studied by standing at bookstalls, and had a superb memory, which allowed him to become very well-versed in the Chinese classics. He eventually reached the rank of District Secretary, a post he soon lost as a result of his combative and anti-authoritarian nature.