Sui and Tang · Astronomer and Instrument Maker

Liang Lingzan 梁令瓚

Liáng Lìngzàn

Attested AD 721 - AD 725

Passages
2
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Liang Lingzan as an astronomer and scientist. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Liang Lingzan 梁令瓚 Liáng Lìngzàn
Personal name Liang Lingzan 梁令瓚 Liáng Lìngzàn
Alternate name Lingzan 令瓚 Lìngzàn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Astronomer
  • Scientist

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 其後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 721 · End: AD 725
    Strongly inferred · songshi:076:s0008
  • Source Date: Text: 皇祐初 · Western Year: AD 1049
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:076:s0011

Events and relationships

  • Kind: scholarly · Role: maker · Action: made-armillary-instrument
    Explicit · songshi:076:s0008

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 76Volume 76 Treatises 29: Measures and Calendar 9 · 2 passages
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皇祐初，又命日官舒易簡、于淵、周琮等參用淳風、令瓚之制，改鑄黃道渾儀，又為漏刻、圭表，詔翰林學士錢明逸詳其法，內侍麥允言總其工。 Early in the Huangyou era, the court again ordered the solar officials Shu Yijian, Yu Yuan, and Zhou Cong to draw on the designs of Li Chunfeng and Liang Lingzan, recast an ecliptic armillary sphere, and also build clepsydra graduations and a gnomon table; Hanlin Academician Qian Mingyi was directed to work out the methods, and Inner Attendant Mai Yunyan to supervise construction.