Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Scholar

Xu Jiang 許將

Attested AD 1089 - AD 1092

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xu Jiang was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1092 元祐七年
Dated from the passage context · History of Song 80, passages 280, 287
AD 1089 元祐四年三月
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 280

Career and standing

Academician-Expositor / Hanlin Academician 翰林學士
AD 1089 元祐四年三月 · Held
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 280

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passages 280, 282-286

Events and relationships

Reported Yuanyou instrument verification
AD 1089 元祐四年三月 · Petition · Petitioner
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passage 280
Requested unified armillary heaven instrument
AD 1089 元祐四年 · Petition · Petitioner
Directly stated · History of Song 80, passages 282-287

References in the histories

History of Song, Chapter 80Volume 80 Treatises 33: Measures and Calendar 13 · 2 passages

元祐四年三月，翰林學士許將等言：「詳定元祐渾天儀象所先奉詔製造水運渾儀木樣，如試驗候天不差，即別造銅器，今校驗皆與天合。」 In the third month of the fourth year of Yuanyou, Academician-Expositor Xu Jiang and others reported: "The office determining the Yuanyou armillary sphere and celestial globe, having first been ordered to build a water-driven wooden model — with bronze to follow if observations showed no error — has now verified that every reading agrees with the sky."

將等又言：「前所謂渾天儀者，其外形圓，可遍佈星度； Jiang and his colleagues added: "The instrument once called the armillary sphere has a round outer shell on which star degrees may be marked all around;