Wang Chong

Wang Chong (27 – c. 97 AD)[1] courtesy name was an astronomer, meteorologist, naturalist, philosopher, and writer in China. He was able to develop a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account of the world and materialistically explained the origin of the universe.[2]

Notes
  1. Crespigny, 806
  2. The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2006), p. 228, at Google Books
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