Shi Shen

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Shi Shen , also Shi Shenfu , was a Chinese astronomer and astrologer of the 4th century BC. Chr.

He is one of the earliest Chinese astronomers known by name. Like his contemporary Gan De , he wrote a catalog of stars with coordinates. Later astronomers compiled catalogs based on those of Gan De and Shi Shen (Gan Shi xing jing). Chen Zhuo , who worked in the 3rd century AD, referred in his constellations and their names to the two and the legendary, even older astronomer Wu Xian of the Shang dynasty .

His works have not survived, but some have been handed down in the Kaiyuan Zhanjing (Kaiyuan treatise on astrology, compiled between 718 and 726 AD). Among them are some of the oldest recorded sunspot observations , the oldest dated mention of which, however, was in the Han Shu .

literature

  • Shi Shen , in: Thomas Hockey (Ed.): Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Springer 2005, p. (short entry).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Article Gan De in Thomas Hockey (Ed.): Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Springer 2005, p.?.
  2. ↑ Article Chen Zhuo in: Thomas Hockey (Ed.): Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers . Springer 2005, S :?
personal data
SURNAME Shi Shen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shi Shenfu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 4th century BC Chr.