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    Guo Shoujing (Chinese: 郭守敬, 1231–1316), courtesy name Ruosi (若思), was a Chinese astronomer, hydraulic engineer, mathematician, and politician of the Yuan...
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    has a Yuan dynasty map and subsequent surveys by the royal astronomer Guo Shoujing during Kublai Khan's reign showing that Scarborough Shoal had been used...
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    First Empress of Emperor Guangwu Guo Shoujing, astronomer, engineer, and mathematician who lived during the Yuan dynasty Guo Si, General who serve under Warlord...
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    Among Kublai Khan's top engineers and scientists was the astronomer Guo Shoujing, who was tasked with many public works projects and helped the Yuan reform...
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    mathematician and astronomer Guo Shoujing (1231–1316). As the historians L. Gauchet and Joseph Needham state, Guo Shoujing used spherical trigonometry...
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  • (1033–1107) Fan Chengda (1126–1193) Guan Hanqing (fl. 13th century) Guo Shoujing (1231–1316) Hu Sanxing (1230–1302) Huang Tingjian (1045–1105) Li Fang...
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    Bingzhong, who also served as supervisor of its construction. His student Guo Shoujing and the Muslim Ikhtiyar al-Din were also involved. The construction of...
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  • mathematician and astronomer Guo Shoujing (1231–1316). As the historians L. Gauchet and Joseph Needham state, Guo Shoujing used spherical trigonometry...
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    hydraulics, mathematics and astronomy, Guo Shoujing, director of the observatory in 1283 after the death of Guo's friend and predecessor Zhang Wenqian....
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    13th century by the mathematician and astronomer Guo Shoujing (1231–1316). Gauchet and Needham state Guo used spherical trigonometry in his calculations...
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    model as their Protestant peers did. Although Shen Kuo (1031–1095) and Guo Shoujing (1231–1316) had laid the basis for trigonometry in China, another important...
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    Xing (683–727), Zhang Sixun (fl. 10th century), Su Song (1020–1101), Guo Shoujing (1231–1316), and many others. Water-powered armillary spheres in the...
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    (see Zhang's article for more detail). Designed by famous astronomer Guo Shoujing in 1276 CE, it solved most problems found in armillary spheres at that...
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    reported in the local population. A friend of Zhang's, Guo Shoujing, accompanied him on this mission. Guo was interested in engineering, was an expert astronomer...
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    established its capital in Khanbaliq (present-day Beijing), the engineer Guo Shoujing initiated a waterworks project to direct the water from Shenshan Spring...
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    LAMOST (category Guo Shoujing)
    Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), also known as the Guo Shoujing Telescope (Chinese: 郭守敬望远镜) after the 13th-century Chinese astronomer...
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    Wu-hu-lie-ti (Euclid) brought by Muslim mathematicians. Zhu Shijie and Guo Shoujing were notable mathematicians in Yuan China. The Mongol physician Hu Sihui...
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    the period from the 13th to the 16th century CE. In the 13th century, Guo Shoujing (郭守敬) used Zhusuan to calculate the length of each orbital year and found...
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    University of Paris. March 17 – Shijō (Mitsuhito), emperor of Japan (d. 1242) Guo Shoujing, Chinese astronomer and engineer (d. 1316) James Salomoni, Italian Dominican...
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    calendar correspondence table Chinese numerals East Asian age reckoning Guo Shoujing, an astronomer tasked with calendar reform during the 13th century List...
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    Kuo Shou Ching (crater) (category Guo Shoujing)
    Kuo Shou Ching is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the northwestern part of the walled plain Hertzsprung, on the far side of the Moon. This...
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    trigonometry that would later be mastered by the astronomer and engineer Guo Shoujing (1231–1316). While using a sighting tube of improved width to correct...
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  • (Karl Ludwig Harding) 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke) 2012 Guo Shou-Jing (Guo Shoujing) 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster) 2069 Hubble (Edwin Hubble)...
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  • al-Tusi attempts to develop a form of non-Euclidean geometry. 1280 – Guo Shoujing and Wang Xun use cubic interpolation for generating sine. 1303 – Zhu...
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  • Ermengol X, Spanish nobleman and adviser (House of Cabrera) (b. 1254) Guo Shoujing, Chinese astronomer, mathematician and politician (b. 1231) Henry Percy...
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  • Astronomical Bureau didn't make much difference to Chinese astronomy. However Guo Shoujing did evidently gain the idea of the torquetum from him (which he didn't...
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  • 1020–1101 Shen Kuo: 1031–1095 Li Zhi: 1192–1279 Qin Jiushao: c. 1202–1261 Guo Shoujing: 1231–1316 Yang Hui: c. 1238–1298 Zhu Shijie: 1249–1314 Cheng Dawei:...
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  • Khan c. 1270 – Terrace for Managing Heaven 26 observatory network of Guo Shoujing under Khubilai Khan 1276 – Dengfeng Star Observatory Platform, Gaocheng...
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    Airport which opened on 18 July 2024. Ren Xuefeng Hebei Pangzai Wei Lijie Guo Shoujing Liu Bingzhong Song Jing Chai Rong Seng Yixing Beiguozhuang Ministry of...
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  • Alexander A. Gurshtein (Russia, 1937–2020) Bengt Gustafsson (Sweden, 1943–) Guo Shoujing (China, 1231–1316) Alan Harvey Guth (United States, 1947–) Yusuke Hagihara...
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