Overview
Zhang Heng was a scholar and Astronomer.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 100 to AD 139 張衡Strongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 197
Places and affiliations
- Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 197
Events and relationships
- Reached his height only by grinding laborScholarly · ExemplarDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 197
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment thought rivaled creation · Mode named-source-report Speaker Wang Sengqian (王僧虔)Directly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 197
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Book of Southern Qi 33, passage 197
References in the histories
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