biography
| name: |
Liu Xin
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also spelled Liu Hsin
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pronunciation:
[lyoo sheen]
| sex:
| male
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| born:
| 100 BC
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| died:
| 100 AD |
| biography:
| Astronomer, and scholar-minister to the Chinese usurper Wang Mang. He antedated Ptolemy's Almagest (2nd-c AD) with his astronomical tables, and catalogued 1080 stars in six magnitude categories, and calculated the year at 365 385/1539 days. In AD 4 he organized a national scientific congress attended by 1000 scholars. |
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