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Exhibition description: Yi Xing (683-727AD)

Yi Xing was an astronomer and Buddhist monk in the time of the Tang Dynasty. He is noted for inventing an inovative armillary sphere, the formulation of the ? Calendar and the correction of the distribution of the 24 solar terms based on solar movements.In 724 AD Yi Xing was put in charge of a terrestial-astromomical survey which successfully meassured the length of a protion of the meridian.
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