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  Asada Goryu - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Asada Goryu, 1734-99, Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan.
Asada spent much of his career in the flourishing commercial city of Osaka, where he practiced medicine for a living.
Yet Asada managed to construct sophisticated mathematical models of celestial movements and is sometimes credited with the independent discovery of Kepler's third law.
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 Goryu Asada Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Goryu Asada was born in 1734 in Japan.
Mostly known for the independent discovery of Kepler’s third law.
A crater on the Moon is named after Asada.
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 Heaven-and-Earth is the Teacher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Asada' s words were difficult, but he read them over and over again until he could understand them.
In his later years he realised that Asada's discoveries required a heliocentric universe, and Baien's schema was geocentric.
Scholars such as Kaibara Ekken, Nishikawa Joken, Sugita Genpaku, Hiraga Gennai, and especially Baien's friend, the astronomer Asada Gôryû, knew how to study heaven-and-earth, that is, the universe.
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 AllRefer.com - Asada Goryu (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Asada Goryu[AsA´dA gOr´yOO] Pronunciation Key, 1734–99, Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan.
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 Goryu Asada - Wikipedia
Goryu Asada (1734 bis 1799) war ein japanischer Astronom und Anatom.
Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Mediziner in Osaka beschäftigte Asada sich mit der Astronomie.
Asada entwickelte Methoden zur Bahnbestimmung der Himmelskörper unseres Sonnensystems und entdeckte unabhängig das dritte Keplersche Gesetz.
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 Goryu Asada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Goryu Asada (麻田剛立) (1734 1799) (gôr´yoo äsä´dä) was a Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan.
Asada crater on the Moon is named after him.
People with craters of the Moon named after them
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 Astronomia : 일본의 천체 망원경 역사 I
Zenbei was an optician who became an active astronomer, observing the sun and other objects, and is also noted for making telescopes for a famous cartographer, Ino Tadataka.
Circa 1800, Asada Goryu ground lenses for a telescope that he used to observe the satellites of Jupiter.
His 'Asada school' used European methods & modern instruments to obtain data, using specialized instruments, such as a transit to measure longitude and a quadrant to measure latitude.
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India ASADA GORY L Asada Goryu (173-1-1799) was a Japanese astronomer who was instrumental in turning Japanese astronomy and calendrical science away from the traditional Chinese style and toward Western models.
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