Sū Sòng 蘇頌 (zì Zǐróng 子容, 1020–1101, 北宋), Northern-Sòng polymath — official, statesman, astronomer-engineer, pharmacologist, and scholar. Jìnshì 1042 (Qìnglì 2). Held high offices culminating as Yòu Púshè jiān Zhōngshū Ménxià Shìláng 右僕射兼中書門下侍郎 (Right Vice Director of State Affairs); enfeoffed Duke of Zhào Commandery (Zhàojùngōng 趙郡公). Major contributions:
- Author of the Xīn yíxiàng fǎyào 新儀象法要 (KR3f0002, 3 juan, 紹聖 1094) — the technical-design treatise for the Yíxiàngtái 儀象臺, the famous water-powered Sòng astronomical clock-tower (Yuányòu period, 1090s) at Kāifēng — one of the major pre-modern global engineering achievements.
- Author of the Běncǎo tújīng 本草圖經 (1062), the imperially-commissioned illustrated Sòng pharmacopoeia (lost as separate work but extensively cited in Táng Shènwēi’s Zhènglèi běncǎo — cf. KR3e0028).
- Other works on agriculture, geography, ritual, and poetry. Biography: Sòng shǐ j. 340.
Native of Nánān 南安 (modern Tóngān 同安, Fújiàn); residence at Dāntú 丹徒 (Jiāngsū). The catalog meta gives lifedates 1020–1121 — the death year is a transcriptional error (correct: 1101); the 蘇頌 note is corrected here.