Which is the world's oldest astronomy book one
Which is the world's oldest astronomy book one
The spring and autumn period and the warring states period, with the development of production, also has a lot of achievements to astronomy."The Book of Jin • day chinese-speaking" records: "catalpa shen, lu jin BuYan, zheng have long-term fellowships cham, song wei, qi (a chu or lu) have a gander, chu have don the mei, Zhao Youyin gao, wei has a Shi Shenfu all return to the astronomy, the theory of map."During the warring states period Truman gander (now hubei), wei Shi Shen (now in henan kaifeng) respectively through long-term observation of celestial, each have appeared in the world.Gander's book called "the day satellites of" feng, Shi Shenfu book called "astronomical", are all eight volumes.The han dynasty, this two works or their publication.Later the two works together, called "GanShiXing classics".The book recorded the names of eight hundred stars, one hundred and twenty-one of which the position of the stars have determined, this is the world's earliest stars.Also recorded in the book, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the five major planets such as water running situation, discovered the haunted by their rules.Legend Shi Shen the "astronomical" eight volumes, there are one hundred and thirty-eight stars, measured by eight hundred.
The GanShiXing sutra is the world's oldest astronomical works.But the GanShiXing sutra is lost in the song dynasty, in "kaiyuan of the tang dynasty also save some fragments, the southern song dynasty ChaoGongWu bibliography of reading", "county jai saved in its stem.