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￼Guo Shoujing was born into a poor family in China ,in the years when the Mongols were consolidating their control over the region.A child prodigy who had built a highly advanced water  clock  by the age of 14,Guo was thaught mathematics, astronomy  and  hydraulics  by his grandfather.He became an  engineer ,working for the  emperor 's chief architect  Liu  Bingzhong .In the late 1250s, ￼￼Kublai Khan  took the throne and chose the region aroung the town of Dadu near the  Yellow  River  to build the new capital of Khanbaliq ,now known as Beijing .Guo was tasked with building a canal to bring spring water from the mountains to the new city.In the 1290s,Guo-by now the Khan's chief  science  and ￼￼￼engineering adviser-connected Khanbaliq to the ancient Grand Canal system that linked to Yangtze and other major rivers.As well as countinuing his astronomical work,Guo oversaw similar  irrigation  and canal projects across China ,and his  theorotical  and  technological   innovations  countinued to influence Chinese scociety for centuries after his death.