PLANNER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Planner

... Europe and the west began in China with the appearance of a remarkable man. Ss[)u]-ma Ch'ien, who flourished 145-87 B.C., was the son of an hereditary grand astrologer, also an eager student of history and the actual planner of the great work so successfully carried out after his death. By the time he was ten years of age, Ss[)u]-ma Ch'ien was already well advanced with his studies; and at twenty he set forth on a round of travel which carried him to all parts ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various