北魏天文学成就初探

A Discussion on Astronomic Achievement of Northern Wei

北魏政权对汉文化采取积极吸收方针,设置天文机构,重视人才的选拔与使用,积极收集、整理天文资料,兴建天文台,制造天文仪器,因此,北魏的天文学取得了长足的进展.其中浑仪、李兰秤漏、天象厅成为天文学史上的重要事件,对中国天文学的发展起了积极的作用.

Regime of Northern Wei absorbs the Han literature actively,founds astronomic institution,paid attention to selection and usage for talents,collects and arrangeed astronomic materials,builded astronomical observatories,and makes astronomic instruments.Thus,the astronomy in Northern Wei makes a great progress,in which Armillary Sphere,Li Lan s Steelyard Clepsydra,and the Astronomic Observatory are important affairs in the astronomy history.They positively affect the development of Chinese astronomy.