Overview
Mei Wending was an Astronomer and Mathematician.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 1633 to AD 1721 宣城梅文鼎爲之圖解Directly stated · History of Ming 33, passages 133-134
Places and affiliations
- At Xuancheng 宣城Directly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
- At Xuancheng 宣城 · Relation Native ofDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
Learning and skills
- Skill calendrical mathematics 曆算 · Level explanatoryDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
- Skill pile-summation interpolation 垛積招差 · Level explanatoryDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
Works and attributed material
- Diagram Explanation of Interpolation 招生圖說Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 134
- specialized monographs on calendrical methods 專書Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 134
- illustrated explanations of mean/standing differences and pile summation 圖解Explanatory diagram · AuthorDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
Events and relationships
- Supplied illustrated explanationsScholarly · Author · Topic mean and standing differences and pile summation 平差、立差之理，垛積之法Directly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment elucidated the rationale of mean and standing differences and pile-summation methods · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 133
Source notes
- His specialized books circulated widely; the Mingshi excerpted only the Diagram Explanation of Interpolation to show legislative intent.Directly stated · History of Ming 33, passage 134
References in the histories
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