Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Astronomer

Ouyang Fa 歐陽發

Attested AD 1082

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Overview

Ouyang Fa was an official and Astronomer.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Life and dates

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • officer for detailed determination of the armillary sphere 詳定渾儀官
    AD 1082 元豐五年正月 · Held
    Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 277

Works and attributed material

  • wooden models of the armillary sphere and clepsydra 渾儀、浮漏木樣
    AD 1082 元豐五年正月 · Relation Submitted
    Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 277

Events and relationships

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 80Volume 80 Treatises 33: Measures and Calendar 13 · 1 passage
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元豐五年正月，翰林學士王安禮言：「詳定渾儀官歐陽發所上渾儀、浮漏木樣，具新器之宜，變舊器之失，臣等竊詳司天監浮漏，疏謬不可用，請依新式改造。 In the first month of the fifth year of Yuanfeng, Academician-Expositor Wang Anli reported: "Ouyang Fa, officer charged with determining the armillary sphere, has submitted wooden models of the armillary sphere and clepsydra that show what the new instruments should do and remedy what the old ones got wrong. We find the Directorate's clepsydra coarse and unreliable and ask that it be rebuilt to the new design.