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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.
Zhang Heng (born 78 ce —died 139) was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer. His seismoscope for registering earthquakes was apparently cylindrical in shape, with eight dragons’ heads arranged around its upper circumference, each with a ball in its mouth.
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Sep 13, 2017 · Zhang Heng (78-139 AD) was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar from Nanyang, Henan Province, China. He is noted for many ancient Chinese inventions .
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Zhang Heng was a Chinese mathematician, astronomer and geographer. He became chief astrologer and minister under the Emperor An'ti of China.
Zhang Heng (Traditional Chinese: 張衡; Simplified Chinese: 张衡; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhāng Héng; Wade-Giles: Chang Heng) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar.
Jan 19, 2017 · Thu 19 Jan 2017 — updated 9 Oct 2023. It was the mathematical genius of a brilliant engineer in first-century China that led to the creation of the first earthquake detector – and his reward? Payment in bread.
Zhang Heng (78-139) was a polymath of the Eastern Han Dynasty who invented a rotating celestial globe, a seismograph and an odometer. He also corrected the calendar, drew a map of the heaven and wrote about the earth as a yolk in an egg.
