Researchers claim the catalog of ancient Chinese stars is the oldest of its kind – but not everyone is convinced

Humans wandering in the stars for thousands – hundreds of thousands of years. The ancient people around the world looked at the sky for physical and spiritual guidance. Dozens and dozens of generations after that, their grandchildren now argues about the civilization that created the oldest well -known optical stars catalog in the world.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of National Sciences of Astronomical Patients claim that the star of the star of Xi, the oldest known stars catalog in China, is actually the catalog of the stars known in reality. They reached this conclusion using a technique representing potential human errors committed for thousands of years. If their results prove that they are correct, this means that the Shi’s Star Catalog is the oldest centuries of the competitor in the first place – one It was created by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus. But not everyone in the scientific community is convinced.

“Compared to the era of monitoring in other ancient stars catalogs around the world, the catalog of the Shiite star is preceded until the oldest Western stars catalogs, confirming that they were placed as the oldest stars catalog in the world,” the researchers wrote in A. Ticket It was posted on the Preprint Arxiv server in April.

Because the axis of the earth fluctuates, the stars location change Predecessor. Researchers can use ancient visual land index so far by calculating the difference between the historical records of the night sky and what our stars now seem.

However, the Catalog of the star of Xi has been difficult so far, not the least of which is that this catalog depicting the positions of the stars that seem to extend to multiple centuries. In the preprint study, researchers define a number of previously proposed dates: around 360 BC; About 360 BC with update about 200 m; About 440 BC with update about 160 m; At some point between 100 BC and 70 BC; During the seventh century AD.

The researchers admitted: “There are a large number of views regarding the timeline of the monitoring of the star of the star of Xi, with no final consensus.” As such, they decided to analyze the 120 -star stars through the manner of converting HOGH – a technique of photographing an algorithm “accommodating the errors in old coordinates and contradictions between old and modern stars, dealing with restrictions in previous methods,” they explained. This approach appears to confirm that the Shi’s Star catalog was formulated for the first time in about 355 BC and then updated about 125 m.

“By comparison, it is possible that the star of the star known in the Western tradition, the Championship Championship Championship (the second century), is derived from the catalog of the stars of Hebarkus (the second century BC). Thus, the Ci -Catal Catalog is determined as the oldest known stars catalog in the world.”

However, some scientists have a different theory: the tool used to record the Shi’s Star Catalog was one degree. Amending the previous studies that are seized on this assumption date sciences. Some historians look positively on this subsequent date because it corresponds to the use of the catalog of football coordinates closely with the Chinese invention of The weapons field (A spherical sports tool used to track the movement of heavenly bodies around the earth) and its adoption of a spherical cosmic model, both of which occurred in the first century BC, according to science.

This indicates that people used football coordinates hundreds of years ago before the invention of the armed field, as researchers do in the recent study, will be like finding a “receipt from a gas station and wants to say this from 1700”.

Future research may provide more answers. Whether the recent study is correct or not, it should be noted that the European approach in the western world has been historically estimated from the historically estimated achievements elsewhere, including ancient China. In addition, the ancient century, Babylon Seven BC, astronomer memoirs Bomb European and Asian astronomical artifacts from water, although tablets include astronomical notes through the text, not pictures.