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	Zhang Heng Summary
		Zhang Heng was a Chinese mathematician and scientist, born in the first century A.D.In addition to being one of the emperor's astrologers, Heng made a number of interesting astronomical discoveries.
		Replica of Zhang Heng's seismometer Houfeng Didong Yi
		Zhang Heng (張衡, Pinyin: Zhāng Héng, Wade-Giles: Chang Heng) (78 – 139) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, artist, poet and literary scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China.
	www.bookrags.com /Zhang_Heng (1022 words)

	CCTV International
		According to historical records, Zhang Heng's seismograph was cast in bronze.
		In addition to the upside-down pendulum, Zhang Heng's seismograph has eight groups of levers, which are connected to the pendulum and distributed around it.
		Zhang Heng's seismograph is the first times humans used scientific methods to understand earthquakes.
	www.cctv.com /program/natureandscience/20060807/102130.shtml (601 words)

	Sensational ancient artefact of the "Zhang Heng seismograph" (in English)
		This in turn has the consequence, that this artefact bears the potential to suggest or to prove, that Zhang Heng was not the original inventor of this device, but just only restored it from some older model that he examined.
		Historic descriptions of the "Zhang Heng seismograph" indicate, that to the egg-shell body only dragon heads were attached, not whole dragons as it is visible on Figures 1 and 4.
		Furthermore, the general shape and the appearance of it, is strangely similar to the shape and the appearance of the "Zhang Heng seismograph".
	www.totalizm.net /artefact.htm (4008 words)

	Zhang Heng
		Zhang Heng was the first person in China to construct a rotating celestial globe and also the inventor of a primitive seismograph for measuring earthquakes and the inventor of the odometer, or "mileage cart".
		Zhang Heng was a proponent of the Hun theory, which stated that the earth is inside the sky, just like the yolk is inside an egg.
		By adding a few additional gears, Zhang Heng was able to drive a pillar that demonstrated the waxing and waning of the moon.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_madeinchina/2005-08/18/content_71970.htm (439 words)

	Zhang Heng
		Zhang Heng (張衡) (78 AD - 139 AD) was an astronomer, mathematician, artist and literature scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty of China.
		He theorized that the universe was like an egg with the stars on the shell and the earth as the yolk.
		Zhang Heng was the first person in China to construct a rotating celestial globe.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/zh/Zhang_Heng.html (206 words)

	Wikipedia search result
		Zhang Heng began his studies in astronomy at the age of thirty, and began publishing his works in astronomy and mathematics.
		Zhang Heng invented the first odometer device in China, an achievement alongside earlier contemporaries Archimedes and Heron of Alexandria from the Hellenized West.
		Zhang Heng is also the first known person in history to apply motive power (water wheel, hydraulics) to rotate the astronomical insturment of the armillary sphere (the Greek Eratosthenes invented the first armillary sphere in 255 BC, while the Chinese armillary sphere was invented in 52 BC by Geng Shou-chang and Luo-xia Hong).
	www.feedbus.com /wikis/wikipedia.php?title=Zhang_Heng (1045 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Zhang Heng
		Zhang Heng began his studies in astronomy at the age of thirty, and began publishing his works in astronomy and mathematics.
		Zhang Heng invented the first odometer device in China, an achievement alongside earlier contemporaries Archimedes and Heron of Alexandria from the Hellenized West.
		Chang Heng in his turn had composed this arrangement by uniting the armillary rings of his predecessors into the equatorial armillary sphere, and combining it with the principles of the water-mills and hydraulic trip-hammers which had become so widespread in Chinese culture in the previous century.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Zhang_Heng (1856 words)

	Zhang_Heng biography
		Zhang Heng was born at the time of the Eastern Han (sometimes called Later Han) dynasty, the second half of the longest lasting Chinese dynasty.
		Over the years that Zhang Heng grew up, Chinese influence and prestige were growing rapidly and reached their peak in around 90 when he was about 12 years old.
		Zhang was thirty years old before his interests turned from literature to scientific matters, and at that time he became particularly interested in astronomy.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Zhang_Heng.html (1458 words)

	Chinese history:Western Han
		Refusing to accept superstitious explanations of the earthquake, Zhang Heng made careful observations and recorded the symptoms of disasters in an attempt to diagnose the causes of earthquake by scientific means.
		Thanks to his painstaking research and repeated experiments, Zhang Heng eventually succeeded in A. 132 in the invention of a seismograph with which to determine the direction of an impending earthquake.
		This led to various suspicions and accusations to the effect that Zhang Heng's seismograph was but a fraud and that he himself was a liar.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/dhan/zheng.htm (587 words)

	Shahararren masanin ilmin sararin sama Zhang Heng
		A nan Zhang Heng ya yi bincike da nazarin abubuwan tarihi, ya bincike al’adun jama’a da tattalin arzikin zaman tarayya.
		Zhang Heng ya yi sha’awar ilmin halitta kwarai da gaske, amma ba ya sha’awar suna da riba, ya yi murabus har sau biyu.
		A ganin Zhang Hen, duniya ta yi kama da kwai, kasar da mu ke zaune ta yi kama da rawayan kwai, samaniya ta fi kasa girma.
	ha.chinabroadcast.cn /chinaabc/chapter17/chapter170303.htm (617 words)

	Zhang Heng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Replica of Zhang Heng's seismometer Houfeng Didong Yi
		Zhang Heng (張衡, Pinyin: Zhāng Héng, Wade-Giles: Chang Heng) (78 – 139) was an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, artist, poet and literary scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty in ancient China.
		Zhang Heng is also the first known Chinese to have invented the armillary sphere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhang_Heng (477 words)

	People (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zhang Heng, also known as Pingzi, was a wellknown scientist and litterateur during the East Han Dynasty.
		Zhang Heng was a "clean" officer, did not accept any bribes and did not associate with any evil person.
		Zhang Heng was a man of high intellect.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0122767/han/people4.html (185 words)

	Zhang Heng (78 - 139) \| China
		Zhang Heng (張衡, Pinyin: Zhāng Héng, Lagging-Giles: Chang Heng), scientist eminent of the dynasty of Han of the East, wrote the first work of China of theory astronomical and manufactured the first sphere armillaire of the world.
		One gave the name of Zhang Heng to a crater located at 112° of latitude is and 19° of northern longitude on the hidden face of the moon.
		Zhang Heng was the first nobody in China to build a rotary celestial sphere.
	www.chine-informations.com /mods/dossiers/index.php?lg=en&action=fiche&id=425 (357 words)

	Association for Asia Research- A Great Chinese Astronomer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zhang Heng was a famous Chinese scholar and astronomer from the time of China’s Han Dynasty.
		Zhang Heng was born in 78 AD at Shiqiao town, located 25km north of the present Nanyang city, Henan province.
		Zhang Heng believed that when the moon was full it should be visible to the eye, and the phases of the moon were due to the earth covering the sunlight.
	www.asianresearch.org /articles/2702.html (399 words)

	Zhang Heng's remote detector of impending earthquakes for hand-phones and satellites (English)
		It is known presently under a misleading name of the "Zhang Heng seismograph", although it does NOT utilise the inertial principles of present seismographs at all.
		Subsequently it was shifted to the graveyard of Zhang Heng in Luoyang, Henan Province.
		#9: This is the tomb of Zhang Heng.
	chi.maroc.to /seismograph.htm (13445 words)

	Zhang Heng - Wikipedia, slobodna enciklopedija
		Zhang je uočio da je izvor Mjesečeve svjetlosti Sunčeva svjetlost, i da pomračenja Mjeseca nastaju usljed toga što sjenka Zemlje pada na Mjesec.
		U oblasti matematike, Zhang je uspio da odredi da pi ima vrijednost 365/116 (oko 3,1466), što je bio značajan napredak u odnosu na do tada prihvaćenu vrijednost u Kini, koja je iznosila 3.
		Zhang se njime služio pri lociranju i bilježenju zemljotresa, što je bila jedna od njegovih zvaničnih dužnosti kao dvorskog historičara.
	bs.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhang_Heng (210 words)

	Archimedes vs. Zhang Heng - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		Although Archimedes lived a considerable amount of time before that of Zhang Heng, in Zhang's defense China at the time was largely isolated from outside realms, let alone the influence of the west, and knew nothing of Greek culture until Zhang Qian's diplomatic missions to the Alexander-Hellenized kingdoms of Bactria and Fergana in Central Asia.
		Although Zhang Heng lived somewhat later than Archimedes, from 78 AD until 139 AD during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and more a contemporary of the Greek mathematician and inventor Heron of Alexandria, he was nonetheless a contemporary of antiquity to the Hellenistic Greeks.
		Zhang Heng was an avid writer and poet, as well as a respected government official in local posts as well as several others in the capital.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=11539&st=0&p=4808855&#entry4808855 (3212 words)

	Zhang Heng (Water Margin) at AllExperts
		In the middle of the river, Zhang tried to kill Song Jiang by forcing him off the boat, but was stopped by Li Jun. Li Jun introduced Song Jiang to Zhang Heng and the others, and upon recognising Song's true identity, they immediately pleaded for forgiveness.
		It was said that after Zhang Shun's death, his spirit possessed Zhang Heng, and killed Fang Tianding at Wuyun Mountain for revenge.
		Zhang Heng woke up from his state and was greatly grieved to hear about his brother's death.
	en.allexperts.com /e/z/zh/zhang_heng_(water_margin).htm (577 words)

	Zhang Heng's remote detector of impending earthquakes for hand-phones and satellites (English)
		It is known presently under a misleading name of the "Zhang Heng seismograph", although it does NOT utilise the inertial principles of present seismographs at all.
		Subsequently it was shifted to the graveyard of Zhang Heng in Luoyang, Henan Province.
		#9: This is the tomb of Zhang Heng.
	alert.1hwy.com (12362 words)

	Talk:Zhang Heng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zhang Heng began his studies in astronomy at thirty.
		Zhang Heng is also the first known chinese to nave invented the armillary sphere.
		Zhang Heng theorized that the universe was like an egg with the stars on the shell and the Earth as the yolk.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Zhang_Heng (574 words)

	Highlights of Chinese Culture and History
		Refusing to accept superstitious explanations of the earthquake, Zhang made careful observations and recorded the symptoms of disasters in an attempt to diagnose the causes of earthquake by scientific means.
		Thanks to his painstaking research and repeated experiments, Zhang Heng eventually succeeded in A.D. 132 in the invention of a seismograph with which to determine the direction of an impending earthquake.
		On day in February, A.D. 138, Zhang Heng and several others found that the dragon facing west had dropped its copper ball, and at this, Zhang made a report to the emperor saying that an earthquake had happened somewhere to the west of the capital, Louyang.
	www.chinatown-online.com /cultureeye/highlights/toads.htm (631 words)

	Sensational ancient artefact of the "Zhang Heng seismograph" (in English)
		This in turn has the consequence, that this artefact bears the potential to suggest or to prove, that Zhang Heng was not the original inventor of this device, but just only restored it from some older model that he examined.
		Historic descriptions of the "Zhang Heng seismograph" indicate, that to the egg-shell body only dragon heads were attached, not whole dragons as it is visible on Figures 1 and 4.
		Furthermore, the general shape and the appearance of it, is strangely similar to the shape and the appearance of the "Zhang Heng seismograph".
	chi.maroc.to /artefact.htm (4008 words)

	Asian Studies Institute - Asia Quarterly
		Such an understanding of Zhang Heng's seismograph is anachronistic in two senses, I believe, and by scraping away its patina of mystery in this way we are reduced, paradoxically, to responding to it with simple wonderment, whereas it is understanding that should be required of us.
		Zhang Heng was a scholar official trained in the moral and political precepts of a Confucianism that was beginning at the time to acquire the status of an orthodoxy, and that was to last virtually intact until the early decades of this century.
		Zhang Heng's concern, as much as it was for his contemporaries, was with the moral dimensions of natural phenomena, and his concern with earthquakes was associated with a theory of portents that argued that it was bad governance, particularly on the part of the Son of Heaven, that caused such things as earthquakes to happen.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /asianstudies/publications/quarterly/98aprila.html (1271 words)

	Inventors Of East And West: Zhang Heng And Heron - History Forum
		First, a poem by Zhang Heng criticizing the earlier emperors of the Western Han Dynasty Period (Zhang lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty Period, a divination marked by Wang Mang's rebellion and usurpation of the throne for several years until the Han's restoration).
		That was until one day Zhang Heng informed the Emperor that an earthquake from the north west direction had just struck, regardless of it not being felt in the capital.
		Zhang Heng's odometer was actually quite different in design than that of the Hellenistic Greek one.
	www.simaqianstudio.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=7116 (4228 words)

	The Three Wise Men
		However, Zhang was not satisfied with his paper maps of the sky.
		Zhang Heng's invention is known as the water-powered celestial sphere.
		By adding a few additional gears, Zhang was able to drive a pillar that demonstrated the waxing and waning of the moon.
	www.astro.ucla.edu /~kaisler/articles/event_horizon/3wisemen.html (1725 words)

	Sensational ancient artefact of the "Zhang Heng seismograph" (in English)
		This in turn has the consequence, that this artefact bears the potential to suggest or to prove, that Zhang Heng was not the original inventor of this device, but just only restored it from some older model that he examined.
		Historic descriptions of the "Zhang Heng seismograph" indicate, that to the egg-shell body only dragon heads were attached, not whole dragons as it is visible on Figures 1 and 4.
		Furthermore, the general shape and the appearance of it, is strangely similar to the shape and the appearance of the "Zhang Heng seismograph".
	energia.sl.pl /artefact.htm (4008 words)

	Zhang Heng, a personality in Chinese ancient astronomy - China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zhang Heng (78-139), born in Henan province, he is a great astrophysicist in Eastern Han Dynasty (25 -220 AD).
		He indicated that the moon can not send radiant light, the moon light is the reflecting light from sun light, and he was aware of the unlimited universe, and he had calculated the relationship between the speed of planet and globosity distance.
		Zhang Heng recorded about two thousands and five hundreds of stars, created the first Armillary Sphere all of the world, and the first seismograph, and he invented a wooden bird that could fly for several miles.
	www.wsbx.com.cn /6/00200 (200 words)

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