Sūn Féngjí 孫逢吉 (zì Cóngzhī 從之, 1135?–1199?; Southern Sòng, dates uncertain) was the author of the Zhǔnzhāi xīnzhì jǐlòu túshì 準齋心制幾漏圖式 (KR3fa006), a treatise on the design and graduation of the jǐlòu 幾漏 (table-clepsydra / “table water-clock”) with diagrams. He was associated with the Southern Sòng court’s Sītiānjiān 司天監 tradition of horological instrument-making. He is to be distinguished from the Northern Sòng Sūn Féngjí 孫逢吉 (jìnshì 1166 by some records) and from the Yuán figure of the same name; the present figure is the Zhǔnzhāi of the title, whose studio name is otherwise unrecorded.
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Sūn Féngjí 孫逢吉 (zì Yàntóng 彥同; ca. 1135 – ca. 1199), native of Fùchūn 富春 (mod. Hāngzhōu). Southern-Sòng jìnshì of Lóngxìng 1 (1163); the Sìkù tíyào for the Zhíguān fēnjì establishes his career by chronological argument from the dates of his recorded posts. He served as Mìshū jiān 秘書監, Lìbù shìláng 吏部侍郎, and Zhī Tàipíngzhōu 知太平州 under Níngzōng. In Shàoxī 5 (1194), after Zhū Xī 朱熹 was dismissed from the post of Jīngyán Zhíjiǎng 經筵直講, Sūn Féngjí stepped in to lecture on the Quányú 權輿 chapter of the Shī jīng. His chief surviving work is the Zhíguān fēnjì 職官分紀 (KR3k0020) in 50 juan, the most comprehensive Southern-Sòng compendium of Chinese government office-history and prosopography. He is recorded in Sòng shǐ 397 (where the lifedates remain disputed in modern scholarship). The Qín Guān 秦觀 preface attached to the Zhíguān fēnjì dated 1092 cannot, on chronological grounds, be Qín Guān’s — either misattributed or by a different Qín Guān.