Xi Zezong

In this Chinese name, the family name is Xi (席).
Xi Zezong
Traditional Chinese席澤宗
Simplified Chinese席泽宗
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXí Zézōng
IPA[ɕǐ tsɤ̌tsʊ́ŋ]

Xi Zezong (June 6, 1927, Yuanqu, Shanxi – December 27, 2008, Beijing) was a Chinese astronomer, historian, and translator.[1][2] He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an awardee of the Astronomy Prize.

He identified a possible reference to one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter in the fragmentary ancient works of the 4th-century BC Chinese astronomer Gan De, who may have made observation of either Ganymede or Callisto in summer 365.[3][4]

  1. ^ "In Memoriam: Xi Zezong". Newsletter of the History of Science Society. April 2009. Archived from the original on August 23, 2011. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  2. ^ "Science historian XI Zezong, 81, passes away". Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  3. ^ Xi, Zezong Z. (February 1981). "The Discovery of Jupiter's Satellite Made by Gan De 2000 years Before Galileo". Acta Astrophysica Sinica. 1 (2): 87. Bibcode:1981AcApS...1...85X.
  4. ^ Hughes, David W. (1982). "Was Galileo 2,000 Years Too Late?". Nature. 296 (5854): 199. Bibcode:1982Natur.296..199H. doi:10.1038/296199a0. S2CID 5313894.