Zhang Heng
78–139
Chinese polymath who built an early seismoscope.
Zhang Heng (78–139) was an astronomer, born in Nanyang and died in Luoyang.
- Known as
- Astronomer
- Category
- Scientists & Inventors
- Born
- 78, Nanyang
- Died
- 139, Luoyang
Alive at the same time as Zhang Heng
- Plutarch c. 46–c. 120, biographer
- Epictetus c. 50–c. 135, philosopher
- Rabbi Akiva c. 50–135, rabbi
- Ptolemy c. 100–c. 170, astronomer
- Marcus Aurelius 121–180, emperor
- Galen 129–c. 216, physician