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485: 427: 491: 24: 407: 41: 531: 468: 88: 382: 185: 60: 67: 107: 74: 565: 227: 45: 524: 56: 555: 461: 550: 257:, makes earliest known dated record of sunspots; systematic Chinese observations of sunspots continue thereafter. 560: 517: 484: 208: 454: 34: 81: 178: 401: 337: 291: 138: 161: 426: 320: 283: 501: 438: 544: 316: 264: 192: 157: 143: 299:(1031–1095) wrote of his findings for the improved meridian measurement between the 203: 490: 279: 253: 23: 324: 308: 304: 434: 300: 275: 232: 129: 315:. Shen Kuo also argued for spherical celestial bodies by using evidence of 296: 121: 312: 245: 150: 199: 125: 222: 165: 177:
c. 1200 BC - Chinese divide the sky into twenty eight regions (
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1054 - July 4, Chinese astronomers noted the appearance of a
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776 BC - Chinese make the earliest reliable record of a
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c. 1400 BC - Chinese record the regularity of solar and
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needs 12 years to complete one revolution of its orbit.
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