A Study on New Song of the Sky Pacers
We investigated ‘Song of the Sky Pacers, Adopted to the New Methods’, the latest version of Joseon’s ‘Song of the Sky Pacers’. Due to the influence of new knowledge on Chinese asterisms imported from the Ching dynasty, ‘Song of the Sky Pacers with New Star-Charts’ was written in the eighteenth ce...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Korean Space Science Society (KSSS)
2009-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/kosss/OJOOBS/2009/v26n4/OJOOBS_2009_v26n4_589.pdf |
| Summary: | We investigated ‘Song of the Sky Pacers, Adopted to the New Methods’,
the latest version of Joseon’s ‘Song of the Sky Pacers’. Due to the influence of
new knowledge on Chinese asterisms imported from the Ching dynasty, ‘Song of the
Sky Pacers with New Star-Charts’ was written in the eighteenth century. However,
the disagreement between song and star-charts was causing confusion in practical
applications such as Joseon’s national examination for selecting astronomers. In order
to improve this situation, Royal Observatory of the Joseon dynasty published
‘Song of the Sky Pacers, Adopted to the New Methods’ based upon star-charts and
song in the Sequel of I-Hsiang-K’ao-ch’eng. The New Song was
edited by a middle-class professional astronomer Yi Jun-yang, and corrected
by a nobleman Nam Byeong-gil. We establish a brief biography of Yi Junyang.
The New Song preserves the genuine characteristics of previous Joseon’s Song
including the format of title of each lunar mansion and description on the location of
the Milky Way in the asterisms. The description of the Milky Way was newly written
based on the data in volume 31 and 32 of the Sequel of I-Hsiang-K’ao-ch’eng. |
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| ISSN: | 2093-5587 2093-1409 |