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Bronze replica of Zhang Heng's ancient seismoscope featuring a central ornate vessel with dragon heads around its sides and open-mouthed toads positioned below each dragon.
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Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
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Zhang Heng: seismoscope
Model of Zhang Heng's seismoscope (seismograph), which he invented about 132
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