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Zhang Heng (Chinese: 張 衡; AD 78–139), formerly romanized Chang Heng, was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman who lived during the Han dynasty.Educated in the capital cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, he achieved success as an astronomer, mathematician, seismologist, hydraulic engineer, inventor, geographer, cartographer, ethnographer, artist, poet, philosopher, politician, and ...
Chinese astronomy. Appearance. The Dunhuang map from the Tang dynasty ( schools were distinguished with different colors: white, black, and yellow for the stars of Wu Xian, Gan De, and Shi Shen respectively. The whole set of star maps contain 1,300 stars. Astronomy in China has a long history stretching from the Shang dynasty, being refined ...
Four Great Inventions. The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang dynasty China, 868 AD (British Library) The "Four Great Inventions" (simplified Chinese: 四大发明; traditional Chinese: 四大發明; pinyin: sì dà fāmíng) are the compass, gunpowder, papermaking and printing. Paper and printing were developed first.
The compass was invented in China during the Han dynasty between the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD where it was called the "south-governor" (sīnán 司南) or "South Pointing Fish" (指南魚). [3] The magnetic compass was not, at first, used for navigation, but for geomancy and fortune-telling by the Chinese.
History of sundials. World's oldest known sundial, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings (c. 1500 BC), used to measure work hours. [1][2][3] A sundial is a device that indicates time by using a light spot or shadow cast by the position of the Sun on a reference scale. [4] As the Earth turns on its polar axis, the sun appears to cross the sky from ...
The knowledge of Chinese astronomy was introduced into East Asia. Astronomy in China has a long history. Detailed records of astronomical observations were kept from about the 6th century BC, until the introduction of Western astronomy and the telescope in the 17th century. Chinese astronomers were able to precisely predict eclipses.
Liang Lingzan (simplified Chinese: 梁令瓒; traditional Chinese: 梁令瓚; pinyin: Liáng Lìngzàn; Wade–Giles: Liang Ling-Tsan) was a Chinese artist, astronomer, inventor, mechanical engineer and politician of the Kaiyuan era during the Tang dynasty. He invented a mechanized water clock with the Tantric monk and mathematician Yi Xing ...
Yang Chen-Ning or Chen-Ning Yang (simplified Chinese: 杨振宁; traditional Chinese: 楊振寧; pinyin: Yáng Zhènníng; born 1 October 1922), [1] also known as C. N. Yang or by the English name Frank Yang, [2] is a Chinese theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to statistical mechanics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and ...