Certain historians look favorably on this later date because it aligns the catalog’s use of spherical coordinates more closely with the Chinese invention of the armillary sphere (a spherical ...

A comic book featuring ancient Slovenian astronomer Ferdinand Avgustin Hallerstein was launchd here on Thursday, which is hailed as a promoter to the cultural exchanges between China and Slovenia. The ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.

Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...

The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...